Anthurium myosuroides (Araceae)
Epiphyte, scandent; stems elongate, moderately thin; internodes 4.5-5.5 cm long; cataphylls 7-10 cm long, drying brown, persisting at upper nodes. LEAVES erect to spreading; petioles 4-13 cm long, weakly sulcate; blades subcoriaceous to moderately thin, usually elliptic, sometimes more or less ovate, 17-21 cm long, 6-10 cm wide, broadest at middle or just below; anterior lobe 15-19 cm long, the margins convex; posterior lobes 1.5-3.5 cm long, from apex of sinus to outermost point; sinus parabolic to weakly hippocrepiform, the apex rounded; both surfaces matte on drying; midrib prominulous above, more prominently raised below (dry); basal veins 3-4 pairs, free to the base, prominulous above, raised below, yellow (dry); primary lateral veins 6-7 per side, departing the midrib at 40-45° angle, straight to collective vein, prominulous above, raised below (dry); lesser veins visible on both surfaces (dry); collective vein arising from the first basal vein, loop-connecting the primary lateral veins, 5-7 mm from margin. INFLORESCENCE erect-spreading (?); peduncle 10-16 cm long, ca. 2 mm diam.; spathe moderately thin, green, lanceolate, 4-6 cm long, ca. 0.9 cm wide, acuminate at apex, acute to more or less rounded at base; spadix stipitate to 1.5 cm, yellow, 6-9 cm long, 5-6 mm diam. near base, 3-4 mm diam. near apex; flowers rhombic, 2.7-3 mm long, 2.2-2.5 mm wide (dry); the sides sigmoid, 3-5 flowers visible in the principal spiral, 5-6 flowers visible in the alternate spiral; lateral tepals 0.6-0.7 mm wide, the inner margins convex; pistils scarcely emergent; stigmas inconspicuous; stamens emerging in a regular sequence throughout the length; anthers held at sides of pistil; thecae ovate, weakly divaricate. INFRUCTESCENCE not seen.
Panama to Ecuador. In Panama the species is apparently rare, occurring only in tropical wet forest at 700 to 850 m. It is also recorded in Tabasco of Mexico.