Araceae
Anthurium terracolum Croat
Nomenclature
SUMMARY
Terrestrial; internodes 1.5-5.5 cm long, 4-5 mm diam.; cataphylls persisting as fibers, intact at upper nodes, 3-4 cm long, drying tan; petioles 3-8.5 cm long (averaging 5.4 cm), 1-2 mm diam., erect-spreading, sharply C-shaped, sulcate; blades ovate-elliptic, acuminate at apex, rounded at base, 7-16 cm long, 3-6.5 cm wide (averaging 11.4 x 5 cm), 1.9-2.5 times longer than broad, 1.5-3.5 times longer than the petioles, broadest at or somewhat below middle, thinly coriaceous; upper surface dark green and matte; lower surface moderately paler and weakly glossy, sometimes bicolorous; midrib narrow, convex, and moderately paler above, acute and slightly paler below; primary lateral veins 9-11 per side, departing midrib at 60°-75° angles, etched above, weakly raised below; collective vein arising from near base, 3-6 mm from margin; INFLORESCENCES erect; peduncle 7-12 cm long, 1.5 mm diam.; spathe erect, green to cream, clasping elongated peduncle/stipe; spadix green, becoming weakly tinged purple, cylindroid, 2-4 cm long, 2-3 mm diam.; stipe to ca. 3.5 cm long. Flowers 2-3 per primary spiral, 1.1-1.3 mm long, 1.0-1.2 mm wide. INFRUCTESCENCES with berries pale green at base, dark green at apex, longer in one dimension (4x5 mm wide, 3.5 mm high), depressed apically; seeds 2 per berry, oblong-elliptic, 3 mm long, 2 mm diam., tan.