Anthurium ricaurtense Croat

Terrestrial, loosely climbing epiphyte, or epiphyte; stem to 2 m long; internodes to 6 cm long, 4 cm diam., dark reddish brown; cataphylls persisting intact, red-brown except when young, to ca. 20 cm long; petioles (45-)55-90(-107) cm long (averaging 70.3 cm), 7-12 mm diam., terete, obscurely and narrowly sulcate toward base, medium green, semiglossy; blades ovate-cordate, acuminate at apex, cordate at base, (34.5-)44-75 cm long, 24-52 cm wide (averaging 57 x 37 cm), 1.5-1.6 times longer than broad, .6-1.1 times longer than the petioles, subcoriaceous to moderately coriaceous; anterior lobe 28-54 cm long, 24-50 cm wide; upper surface dark green and semiglossy to moderately glossy, drying dark yellowish brown; lower surface slightly paler and glossy, obscurely glandular-punctate, drying dark reddish brown; posterior lobe 8-22 cm long, 11-23 cm wide, directed slightly inward; sinus spathulate, 7-19 cm deep; midrib narrowly rounded to bluntly acute and paler above, paler and acutely 3-ribbed to about middle below, acutely I-ribbed to acutely angled toward apex; basal veins 6-8 pair, 3-4 free to base, the remainder coalesced for 1-5 cm; posterior rib largely naked; primary lateral veins 12-16 per side, narrowly raised, paler, and in valleys above, convex to acute and paler below; tertiary veins in part raised or flat and somewhat darker than surface below; collective vein arising from second or third basal vein, 1-3 mm from margin; INFLORESCENCES erect, about as long as leaves, peduncle 60-100 cm long, ca. 1 cm diam. at middle, terete, drying yellowish brown; spathe lanceolate, narrowly long-acuminate, (9.5-) 16-18 cm long, 2-5.5 cm wide coriaceous, yellow-green, tinged with purple inside, becoming reflexed in fruit, ca. 18 cm long, drying red-brown; spadix white, sessile, 9.5-15 cm long, 9 mm diam. at base, gradually tapering to 7 mm diam. at apex. Flowers 14-17 visible on primary spiral, 1.4-1.7 mm long, 1.2-1.4 mm wide. INFRUCTESCENCES with fruiting spadix 31 cm long, to 4 cm diam., medium green; pistils green; berries greenish, early emergent.