Anthurium banderasense Croat

Terrestrial; internodes very short; cataphylls not seen. LEAVES 130.3 cm long with petioles 44.3 cm long, 0.8 cm diam., drying light tan, sharply C-shaped adaxially with margins acutely narrow and curled under, flattened adaxially with a medial rib, drying yellowish with 5 prominent ribs abaxially; geniculum 1 cm long, about as broad as shaft; blade 86 cm long, 16.3 cm wide, widest near the middle of the blade, lanceolate, narrowly acuminate at apex, narrowly attenuate at base, 5 times longer than wide, 1.9 times longer than petiole; midrib drying convex, minutely many-ridged, drying sharply acute, finely ribbed and conspicuously granular-pustular below: primary lateral veins 19 pairs, arising at a 60 - 70° angle from the midrib, drying weakly and narrowly rounded, slightly lighter than blade on both surfaces; basal veins 1 pair margining out in a few cm; collective veins arising from one of the lower primary lateral veins, running 3 - 8 mm from the blade margin to the apex; upper surface drying medium dark yellowish green, semiglossy, minutely granular; lower surface slightly lighter yellowish green, semiglossy, minutely-granular (including on the tertiary veins, both surfaces epunctate but abundantly pale-pustular. INFLORESCENCE 54.4 cm long with peduncle 41.9 cm long, 4 mm diam., drying coarsely ribbed, light tan; spathe 7 cm long, 1.9 cm wide, lanceolate, reflexed, drying slightly orangish brown; spadix post-anthesis sessile, 12.4 cm long, 1.8 cm diam., weakly tapered. INFRUCTESCENCE: berries magenta, emergent, 3 mm x 3 mm.