Anthurium lakei Croat & P. Huang

Epiphytic; internodes short, 1.0-2.5 cm diam.; cataphylls 3-4.5 cm long, persisting semi-intact or as fibers, only at the uppermost nodes, the remainder sometimes deteriorating into a sodden, reddish brown mass, drying reddish brown; petioles 12-40 cm long (averaging 28.7 cm), 3-5 mm diam., erect, terete to sharply C-shaped, sulcate or with 3 narrow ribs adaxially; geniculum moderately swollen, 1-2 cm long, drying dark brown; blades narrowly elliptic, acuminate at apex, acute to obtuse at base, (16-)20-27(-36) cm long, (4.5-) 5.8-7.5 cm wide (averaging 26 x 6.4 cm), 2.5-4 times longer than wide, .5-1.25 times longer than the petioles, broadest at or slightly below the middle, moderately bicolorous, subcoriaceous; moderately glossy on both surfaces, drying dark brown to gray-brown above, slightly paler and yellowish brown below; upper surface drying moderately smooth but minutely granular on magnification; lower surface moderately smooth, densely dark brown glandular-punctate, the punctations .05 mm diam; midrib convex and paler above, narrowly rounded to bluntly acute and somewhat paler below, drying concolorous, much thicker than broad, sometimes moderately acute above, thicker than broad, striate, slightly darker to slightly paler below; primary lateral veins (9-) 10-12 (-13) per side, weakly quilted-sunken or etched-sunken above, weakly pleated-raised below; interprimary veins etched above, weakly raised below, often scarcely less conspicuous than primary lateral veins; tertiary veins mostly obscure; collective vein arising from the base, 2-4 mm from margin; INFLORESCENCES spreading to erect-spreading, at height of or beneath blades; peduncle 20-50 cm long, 1-3 mm diam., terete to 1-angular; spathe erect-spreading to spreading, pink or green tinged purple inside and along margins outside, lanceolate, 4-7 cm long, 6-15 mm wide; spadix yellow-green or green and moderately glossy when young, turning dark purple by anthesis, sessile or very weakly stipitate, slightly tapered, 7-15 cm long, 5-8 mm diam. at base, 2-4 mm diam. at apex. Flowers 1.3-1.7 cm long, 1.3-1.5 cm wide; lateral tepals drying dark brown, minutely granular, .9-1.1 mm wide, 2-sided on outer margin, broadly rounded on inner margin but turned up against the pistils and often appearing straight or concave on dried specimens; stamens held in a tight cluster at opposite sides of the pistil immediately above the tepals; anther .3 mm long, .4 mm wide; pollen pale orange. INFRUCTESCENCES with berries white at apex, violet-purple in lower half; tepals dark green in fruit.