Anthurium becerrae Croat

Epiphytic; internodes very short; cataphylls sometimes persisting as orange hair-like fibers, 4 - 7 cm long. LEAVES 67 - 77 cm long with petioles 4 - 7.5 cm long, 0.4 - 1.1 cm diam.; geniculum 0.5 cm long, drying darker, slightly swollen; blades oblanceolate, 63.2 - 71.5 cm long, 11.7 - 17.3 cm wide, 4.1 - 5.4 times longer than broad, 9.5 - 15 times longer than petiole, acuminate at apex, narrowly truncate at base; midrib narrowly acute above, broadly flattened with many fine ribs, reddish below; primary lateral veins 14 - 19 pairs, arising from the midrib at a 40° - 50° angle, acutely and narrowly raised, concolorous above, narrowly rounded and darker below; basal veins numerous pairs (4 - 8) very fine veins radiating out of petiolar plexus and ending at the margin in the lower 5 cm of base; collective veins absent, each primary lateral vein arching to the margin; upper surface drying dark greenish brown, minutely and finely granular, sparsely pale short-lineate, semi-glossy, epunctate, with scattered white pustules, lower surface drying lighter reddish brown, minutely granular, semi-glossy, epunctate, with abundant white pustules, lacking short pale lineations. INFLORESCENCE 31 - 62 cm long (averaging 47) with peduncle 24 - 58 cm long (averaging 45), 0.2 cm diam.; spathe green, narrowly lanceolate, 6.5 - 15 cm long, 0.9 - 1.3 cm wide, spadix garnet-red, sessile, long, slender, long-tapered, 7 - 17.4 cm long, 0.4 - 0.5 cm diam., 4 - 5 flowers visible per spiral, 2.2 - 2.6 mm long, 1.8 mm wide, tepals matte papillate, glittering with a few pale cellular inclusions, lateral tepals 1.3 mm wide.