Araceae
Anthurium minarum Sakuragui & Mayo
SUMMARY
Acaulescent, rosulate herb. Stem tough and fibrous, surrounded by mass of adventitious roots, cataphylls 2.5-13 (-20) x 1.5 to 4 cm, green to reddish-purple-green, characteristically persistent after withering to pale brown and then entire and membranaceous, triangular or narrowly triangular. LEAF: petiole 2.5-26 cm long, always shorter than blade, entirely green or with reddish-purple veins, adaxial surface canaliculate with rounded margins, abaxial surface convex, apical pulvinus (geniculum) 1-2 x 0.5-2 cm, green to pale greenish yellow; blade 16.3-69 x 4.1-17.5 cm, 1.9-6.6 times longer than broad,1 chartaceous to coriaceous, narrowly elliptic, narrowly oblong, lanceolate or oblanceolate, abaxial surface punctate, punctations usually dark and conspicuous, sometimes ± concolorous with blade, apex acute to rounded, truncate or rarely emarginate, base cuneate to rounded, midrib rounded adaxially, primary lateral veins numerous on each side, weakly differentiated, inframarginal collective vein 2 to 10 mm from margin on each side. INFLORESCENCE: peduncle 16-73 cm long, green (to reddish-purple-green near apex), sometimes greenish-yellow at base; spathe 2.3-15.5 x 0.4-1.7 cm, at anthesis plain green or with reddish-purple veins, or reddish-purple or pale reddish-purple, linear to oblong linear; spadix 2.6-18 x 0.3-0.8 cm (width measured when dried), longer than spathe, reddish-purple before anthesis, becoming dark reddish-purple later and then brownish with age, sessile or with short stipe 1-2 mm long. Flowers: tepals green at base, reddish-purple at apex, 1-2 x 0.8-1 mm; stamens 0.9-1.3 x 0.5-0.8 mm, oblong, gynoecium 0.8-1.3 x 0.8-1 mm. INFRUCTESCENCE: Berries: 6-7 x 4-4.5 mm, broadly depressed obo-void, greenish-reddish-purple to dark reddish-purple, or dark reddish- to black-purple apically and yellowish-white basally (field observations) or entirely greenish-yellow (as seen in cultivation). Seeds 2-2.5 mm long, ellipsoid, dark reddish-purple.