Anthurium lancea var. ecostatum Croat

Terrestrial; internodes 4-6 cm long, 1.5-3 cm diam.; cataphylls deciduous or not, drying red-brown, 12-16 cm long, decaying to tan fibers or persisting intact at upper nodes; petioles 35-50(65) cm long (averaging 47.7 cm long), 5-9 mm diam., terete or obscurely and narrowly sulcate, medium green, semiglossy; geniculum sulcate, 2 cm long; blades narrowly ovate to ovate, acuminate at apex, obtuse to truncate at base, occasionally very weakly cordate, 25-39 cm long, 12-26 cm wide (averaging 31 X 17 cm), 1.5-2.2 times longer than wide, .5-.8 times longer than the petioles, drying black, subcoriaceous; upper surface dark green, semiglossy; lower surface much paler and matte to weakly glossy, drying somewhat blackened; midrib narrow, convex, and scarcely paler above, slightly paler and prominently round-raised below; basal veins 3-4, more or less free to base; primary lateral veins 8-9 per side, departing midrib at 35°-45° angles, ascending to the collective vein, quilted-sunken above, bluntly acute and pleated-raised below; collective vein originating near base, usually from second basal vein, 4-9 mm from margin; tertiary veins weakly sunken in part above, raised below; INFLORESCENCES erect to erect-spreading; peduncle 44-55 cm long, 3-7 mm wide at base, 2-3 mm wide at apex; spathe lanceolate to slightly elliptic, 6-11 mm long, 1-2 cm wide, reflexed-spreading, green; spadix pale to medium yellow-green, short-stipitate, with stipe 3-15 mm long, cylindroid to slightly tapered, 3-7 mm diam. Flowers 3-4 on principal spiral, 2.4-2.8 mm long, 2.3-2.7 mm wide. INFRUCTESCENCES to 15 cm long; berries early emergent, bluntly acute and dark purple.