Araceae
Anthurium aromoense Croat
Nomenclature
SUMMARY
Epiphytic, internodes very short, 2.5 cm diam., with abundant adventitious roots; cataphylls 10 - 11.5 cm long, weakly acuminate at apex, drying reddish brown, persisting intact. LEAVES 86.3 cm long with petioles 46 cm long, 1 cm diam., drying dark brown, C-shaped, narrowly V-sulcate adaxially with the margins drying bluntly acute; geniculum 2.5 - 3 cm long, darker, slightly swollen with longitudinal striations; blades coriaceous, 39.8 cm long, 26.5 cm wide, widest in the lower 1/10, 1.5 times longer than wide, 0.9 times longer than petiole, narrowly rounded and weakly emarginate at the apex, truncate-broadly rounded at the base, matte to weakly glossy on both surfaces, margin prominently rolled under; midrib drying faintly raised in valley, concolorous above, narrowly rounded, finely ribbed, darker below; primary lateral veins 11 pairs, scalariform, arising from the midrib and basal veins at 30 - 40° angles, deeply sunken above with edges raised, finely, narrowly raised, irregularly ridged, darker below with usually a single somewhat irregular interprimary vein between; tertiary veins few; basal veins 4 pairs, concolorous, slightly raised in valley above, prominently raised, rounded below, inner pair forming the collective veins, middle pair margin out in upper 1/3 of blade, outer pair margining out in lower 1/5 of blade; upper surface drying semiglossy upon magnification, aerolate-ridged and densely but obscurely short-pale-lineate, grayish dark brown; lower surface drying semiglossy upon magnification, densely and conspicuously pock marked, sparsely short-pale-lineate, with scattered white pustules and large glandular punctations, medium reddish brown. INFLORESCENCE 86 cm long with peduncles 67.5 cm long; spathe green, 10.5 cm long, 1.5 cm wide, reflexed, subpendular; spadix green, sessile, 19.8cm cylindroid-tapered, flowers 5 - 6 visible per spiral, 3.0 - 3.6 mm long and wide, tepals irregularly ridged-granular upon drying, inner margins nearly straight with edges curled upward, outer margins 2-sided.