Anthurium lancea ecostatum
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.
Anthurium lancea Sodiro var. ecostatum is mostly distributed in Colombia (Narino), at elevations of ca. 1,800 m in Premontane wet forest, but one specimen was also found in Colombia (Choco) at an elevation of 440 m in Tropical rain forest. It is fairly common at La Planada, collected in secondary and elements of primary forest above the La Posada (Croat 69574), as well as other less specific sites (Gentry, Benavides collections).