Anthurium mindense
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.
Anthurium mindense ranges from Bolivia (Cochabamba), Colombia (Caqueta, Cauca, Nariiio, Putumayo) to Ecuador (Azuay, Caiiar, Carchi, Chimborazo, Cotopaxi, El Oro, Esmeraldas, Guayas, Imbabura, Loja, Manabf, Morona-Santiago). It ranges primarily in the Ecuadorian provinces of Pichincha and Carchi, but it is also quite common throughout the La Planada area. It occurs principally on the western slopes of the Andes at 1,200-2,5OO m elevation, in Premontane rain forest, Premontane wet forest and Tropical wet forest. The species also occurs on the eastern slopes of the Andes but most of the collections from the eastern slope belong to a new variety of A. mindense which appear to be from the same taxon.