Araceae
Anthurium pazii Croat
Nomenclature
SUMMARY
Epiphyte on branches high in canopy; stems with the older sections internodes 4-5 mm long but flowering portion very short. 3-4 mm diam., cataphylls 2-2.5 cm long. persisting as reddish brown fibers with some fragments of epidermis; petioles 18-23 cm long (averaging 20 cm). weakly sulcate with a weak medial rib. drying 2-3 mm diam., light to dark brown, matte; blades narrowly ovate-elliptic to narrowly oblong-elliptic, 12-13.7 cm long, 3.8-4.6 cm wide (averaging 13 x 4.2 cm), 4.6 times longer than wide, .6-.7 times as long as petioles, broadest at middle or slightly below the middle, gradually acuminate at apex, acute to weakly attenuate at base, dark green and matte above, paler and matte below, drying dark gray-brown and matte above, paler yellow-brown and matte below, upper surface eglandular, drying minutely granular on magnification; lower surface densely dark glandular-punctate; midrib narrowly and sometimes acutely raised, weakly paler above, somewhat acute and concolorous below, lacking glandular punctations; primary lateral veins 4-5 pairs, arising at 55-60° angle; collective veins arising from the base, 4-5 mm from the margin, equal to the primary lateral veins, both the collective veins and the primary lateral veins drying concolorous, thin and weakly undulated on both surfaces. INFLORESCENCES erect; peduncle 23.5 cm long, drying 2 mm wide, yellow-brown; spathe 2.5 cm long, 2.5 mm wide, green, spreading, folded down along the margins, ending abruptly and short-apiculate at apex, acute and joining peduncle at 45° angle; spadix sessile, greenish, 13.3 cm long, drying 2 mm wide; 66 times longer than wide, tapered to an almost needle-like tip on drying. Flowers 2-3 visible per spiral, drying ca. 4 mm long, 1.2-1.5 mm wide; tepals 2-2.4 mm wide, the outer margin 2-sided, meeting at a broad angle, inner margin nearly straight; stamens emerging just above the tepals; anthers .4 mm long, .6 mm wide, thecae broadly divaricate; pistils .6 x .4 mm diam. INFRUCTESCENCES to 20 cm long, berries violet-purple.