Anthurium gracilistipum Croat

Epiphytic; internodes 6-12 cm long, 3.5 mm diam. (drying 2 mm diam.); cataphylls subcoriaceous, clasping stems, 4-6 cm long, apiculate to acuminate at apex, pale green, drying medium orangish-brown, persisting intact at upper nodes, deciduous or persisting as a few unorganized pale fibers lower on stem; petioles 1-4 cm long (averaging 2.3 cm), drying 1-1.5 mm diam., terete, narrowly and weakly sulcate; blades narrowly ovate or ovate-elliptic, narrowly long-acuminate at apex, obtuse to rounded at base, (5-)9-13 cm long, (1.7-)3-6.5 cm wide (averaging 11.2 x 4.5 cm), 2.5-3 times longer than wide, 4-7 times longer than the petioles, broadest below middle, thinly coriaceous, dark green and weakly glossy above, slightly paler and semiglossy below, drying dark brown above, yellow-brown below, epunctate on both surfaces; midrib narrowly raised and slightly paler above, convex and paler below; primary lateral veins 8-9 per side, moderately obscure and weakly quilted above, obscure and slightly darker below; other veins obscure; collective veins two pairs, the inner originating from primary lateral veins near base, 2-6 mm from margin, the outer pair originating from the base and running very close to the margin and usually entirely merging with the margin before the middle of the blade. INFLORESCENCES erect; peduncle 2-4 cm long, 1 mm diam.; spathe erect, ovate, green tinged purplish, 1.5-3 cm long; spadix purplish at anthesis, cylindroid, 1.5-2 cm long, 1.5-2.5 mm diam, stipitate, stipe 1-5 cm long, 1 mm diam., tinged purplish. Flowers 2-3 per primary spiral, 1.1-1.3 mm long, 1.0-1.2 mm wide;. INFRUCTESCENCES with fruiting spadix brownish-red, 3.5-4.5 cm long, 6-9 mm diam.; berries greenish yellow and exserted before becoming mature.