Anthurium mindense Sodiro

Terrestrial, hemiepiphytic, or epiphytic, erect or climbing; internodes 1-12 cm long, 5-18 mm diam., green, brown, or pale reddish-brown, matte; cataphylls to 4 cm long, drying reddish tan, bases partially persisting as largely unorganized tan fibers; petioles S-12 cm long (averaging 9.9 cm), 2-3 mm diam. at middle, subterete to C-shaped, narrowly and sharply flattened near apex, less conspicuously flattened lower down, often narrowly 3-ribbed adaxially; blades oblong to oblong-elliptic, narrowly acuminate to caudate at apex, acute to rounded at base, 12-33 cm long, 4-12 cm wide (averaging 27.5 x 7.9 cm), 2.5-4.5 times longer than broad, 2-4.1 times longer than the petioles, broadest at or near middle, subcoriaceous to weakly coriaceous; upper surface dark green, matte, and velvety; lower surface weakly glossy and somewhat paler; midrib narrow, moderately acute, and slightly paler than surface above, prominently round-raised and paler or red-tinged below; primary lateral veins 9-14 per side, etched-sunken above, sharply to narrowly raised below, as prominent as collective vein; interprimary veins weakly sunken above, almost equal in prominence to primary lateral veins below; collective vein arising from one of first primary lateral veins, 3-S mm from margin; INFLORESCENCES erect to spreading; peduncle 8-16 cm long, 1-2 mm diam.; spathe erect to erect-spreading, even in fruit, or reflexed, membranaceous to chartaceous, cream, pale to medium green, or yellow green, lanceolate, 3-S cm long, 6-12 mm wide; spadix green becoming dark purple or greenish orange, green towards tip, matte to weakly glossy, cylindroid to weakly tapered, 4-9 cm long, 2-3 mm diam.. INFRUCTESCENCES with fruiting spadix 7-13 cm long, 4-11 mm diam. at base, 3-4 mm diam. at apex; berries orange-red, more or less rounded at apex.