Anthurium herrerae Croat & P. Huang

Terrestrial; all parts infected with fungal pustules; stems elongate; internodes long, ca. 5 cm long, ca. .7 cm diam., drying brown, velvety or at least matte, drying closely and finely ridged; cataphylls 2.5-10.5 cm long, red-brown to brown, persisting intact, drying with a densely granular surface; petioles 28-40 cm long, 5 mm diam., somewhat sulcate, drying red-brown, matte to semiglossy; blades ovate-cordate, 21-28.2 cm long, 14 cm wide, 1.5 times longer than wide, .5 times as long as petioles, broadest in the lower 1/3 of the blade, subcoriaceous; both surfaces medium yellow-brown, glossy to semiglossy, upper surface epunctate, drying semiglossy and moderately granular; lower surface drying slightly paler, medium yellow-brown, darkly dark-punctate, with paler granulations in the areoles, major veins on lower surface yellowish when fresh; anterior lobe 20.2 cm long, broadly convex; posterior lobe 6.8-7.2 cm long, 5.2-5.5 cm wide; midrib conspicuously raised on both surfaces, convex and concolorous above, drying narrowly raised and darker, reddish brown below; basal veins 4-5 pairs, first 2 pairs free to base, raised on both surfaces, 3rd and higher pairs fused 1.5-2 cm long, these raised on lower surface, but sunken on upper surface; posterior rib 1-1.5 cm long, curved; primary lateral veins 5 pairs, departing midrib at 35°-45° angles, somewhat raised on upper surface near midrib, sunken toward margins, narrowly raised on lower surface, tertiary veins raised somewhat on both surfaces. INFLORESCENCES erect; peduncle 16.3 cm long, drying 1 mm diam., dark yellow-brown; spathe green, oblong-linear, abruptly cuspidate, 4-4.3 mm long, 6-10 mm wide, drying drying dark brown; spadix sessile, whitish, cylindroid, 4.3 cm long, 5 mm diam. Flowers 5-6 visible per spiral, 1.9-2.1 mm long; tepals 1.2 mm wide, minutely granular, the outer margins 2-3-sided, inner margins rounded. INFRUCTESCENCES not seen.