Anthurium keatingii Croat

Epiphytic; internodes short, 1.0-2.5 cm diam.; cataphylls fibrous; ca. 5 cm long, drying dark red-brown, persisting as fibers and fragments of epidermis. LEAVES erect-spreading; petiole ca. 28 cm long, 3-4 mm diam., subterete, obtusely sulcate adaxially, weakly glossy, drying dark brown; blade elliptic, acuminate at apex, acute at base, 23 cm long, 11 cm wide, 2.1 times longer than wide, .8 times longer than the petiole, widest at or slightly below middle, drying dark brown, inequilateral, one side 5.7 mm wider, subcoriaceous; midrib drying rounded-raised and darker below, finely striate below; basal veins 2-3 pairs, free to base; primary lateral veins ca. 19 pairs, departing midrib at 45-60 degree angle, ascending to collective vein, drying considerably darker than surface below; interprimary veins nearly as prominent as primary lateral veins, numerous; collective veins 2 or 3 pair per side, arising from the base, the inner-most ascending to the apex, 4-5 mm from the margin, the 2nd pair of basal veins ending in the lower 1/3 of blade, on one a marginal veins merging with the margin in lower 3 cm of the blade; upper surface dark green and matte, minutely glandular-punctate, the surface drying minutely papillate. INFLORESCENCES with peduncle 28 cm long, 2 mm diam.; spathe lanceolate, 10 cm long, 1.5 cm wide, reflexed, acuminate at apex, merging onto petiole at a broad angle, subcoriaceous, maroon, drying dark brown, matte, conspicuously undulate along the margins, long-apiculate at apex (apiculum 8 mm long), spadix green, stipitate 3 mm, weakly tapered, 13 cm long, 5 mm diam. at base, 3.5 mm diam. at apex. Flowers 5-7 visible per spiral, 1.8-2.6 mm long; tepals minutely granular, lateral tepals 1 mm wide, the outer margins 2-sided, the inner margin broadly rounded; stamens retracted beneath the surface of the tepals; style oblong, 1.5-2 mm long.