Anthurium chucunesense Croat

Terrestrial; internodes short, 7 mm diam.; cataphylls persisting as loose, organized fibers, to 4 cm long, drying dark red-brown and persisting as more or less erect fibers; petioles 9-11 cm long (averaging 10 cm), drying dark brown, 2 mm diam., sulcate adaxially with medial rib at apex and on geniculum; geniculum 5-7 mm long, drying reddish brown; blade moderately coriaceous, elliptic to ovate-elliptic, abruptly acuminate and apiculate to acuminate at apex, acute at base, 10-12 cm long, 4-5 cm wide (averaging 11 x 4.5 cm), 2.4 times longer than broad, 1.1 times longer than the petioles, broadest at or below middle, 1.0-1.2 times longer than petioles; upper surface drying dark brown, weakly glossy, epunctate; lower surface slightly paler drying semiglossy and paler yellow-brown, dark glandular-punctate but also densely covered with discrete, smaller, circular dots slightly darker than the dried surface; midrib narrowly raised, slightly darker and bluntly acute above, prominently raised below, drying slightly paler than surface and with a mostly distinct medial ridge; primary lateral veins 5-6 per side, arising at an acute angle then spreading at 50-60° angle, drying weakly raised above and much less prominent than the collective veins, narrowly raised below and nearly as prominent as collective veins below; collective veins arising from base, 4-6 mm from margin, drying deeply sunken above, narrowly raised and darker below; INFLORESCENCES erect-spreading; peduncle 35 cm long, much longer than leaves, drying dark reddish brown, and longitudinally folded, 1-2 mm diam.; spathe reflexed-spreading, subcoriaceous, maroon, lanceolate, 5 cm long, 4 mm wide; spadix green, very weakly stipitate, narrowly long-tapered, erect, 16 cm long, 4 mm diam. near the base, 2 mm wide at apex. Flowers 3 visible per spiral, 4.2-4.4 mm long, 2.1-2.4 mm wide; tepals minutely granular on drying, lateral tepals 2.1-2.2 mm wide, the outer margin broadly 2-sided, the inner margin broadly rounded; stamens emerging just above the tepals and widely spaced; anthers .2 mm long, .4 mm wide, thecae moderately divaricate; stigma oblong, .4 mm long. INFRUCTESCENCES with berries turning violet.