Araceae
Anthurium nestorpazii Croat & P. Huang
Nomenclature
SUMMARY
Terrestrial; internodes short, 3.5 cm diam.; petioles terete, 84 cm long, drying 7-11 mm diam, weakly sulcate, drying light reddish brown, matte; blades narrowly ovate-sagittate, 72 cm long, 45 cm wide, 1.6 times longer than wide, .8 times as long as petioles, abruptly acuminate at apex, deeply lobed at base with the posterior lobes prominently turned inward and overlapping when flattened, dark green and weakly glossy above, slightly paler and semiglossy below, drying medium yellow-brown and weakly glossy on both surfaces; anterior lobe 52 cm long, broadly rounded on margins; posterior lobes 23 cm long, 17.5 cm wide; sinus mitered, closed, 20 cm deep, 9 cm wide; basal veins 9 pairs, the 1 st free to the base, the remainder coalesced and more or less regularly spaced along posterior rib, the 5th and higher veins coalesced to 8 cm long; posterior rib to 9 cm long, prominently curved, naked along sinus 8-8.5 cm; midrib narrowly raised and slightly paler above, round-raised below, drying narrowly raised and finely ribbed above, narrowly round-raised and finely ribbed, reddish brown and matte below; primary lateral veins 8-9 per side, arising at 35-50° angle, bluntly acute and concolorous above, acute and slightly darker below; collective veins arising from one of the uppermost basal veins; tertiary veins in part drying prominulous below. INFLORESCENCES erect-spreading; peduncle 21 cm long; spathe 11 cm long, 6 cm wide, 1.8 times longer than wide, narrowly ovate, naviculiform and hooding spadix, greenish cream outside, whitish cream inside, matte and heavily veined outside, matte and minutely granular inside on drying, acute at apex, rounded at base, directed at 40° angle to the peduncle; spadix cylindroid-tapered, purplish violet, stipitate 5-7 mm, 10 cm long, 1 cm diam. at base, 7 mm diam. at 1 cm from apex. Flowers 8-10 visible per spiral, 2.0-2.2 mm long, 1.8-2.2 mm wide; tepals conspicuously warty, lateral tepa Is .8-1.0 mm wide, the outer margins 2-sided, the inner margins rounded. INFRUCTESCENCES with immature berries pink.