Araceae
Anthurium ingramii Croat
Nomenclature
SUMMARY
Internodes short, ca. 1.5 cm diam.; cataphylls persisting intact, 4 cm long, drying dark brown, subcoriaceous. LEAVES with petioles 39.5 - 42 cm averaging 40.75 cm long, 4 - 5 mm diam. midway, D-shaped to round, drying obtusely and broadly sulcate, drying medium yellowish brown, matte; geniculum 2.5 - 3.5 cm long, darker than petiole; blade narrowly triangular-sagittate, 39.5 - 46.5 cm averaging 44 cm long, 12 - 16 cm averaging 14 cm wide, widest 1 - 4 cm below petiolar plexus, attenuate, 2.9 - 3.3 times longer than wide, 0.9 - 1.2 as long as petiole, subcoriaceous, medium green and matte above and paler and semiglossy below, drying medium yellowish brown sometimes greenish brown, concolorous to slightly darker above, matte above and weakly glossy below; upper surface raised punctate, +/- 2 areolate-ridged with short oblong ridges; lower surface sparsely dark punctate, pale speckled with smaller dark speckles; anterior lobe 32.5 - 39.5 cm averaging 37 cm long, margin concave to straight; posterior lobes 7.5 - 9.5 cm averaging 8.8 cm long, 3.5 - 6.5 cm averaging 5 cm wide, mostly straight sometime slightly turned inward; midrib narrowly convex above, round-raised with wings below, paler to concolorous above, paler below; primary lateral veins 10 - 11 pairs, arising at a 44 - 57° angle, convex and sometimes sunken in valleys near apex, narrowly raised below, concolorous above and below; tertiary veins inconspicuous above, raised below; collective veins arising from the 4th or 5th basal veins, 0.5 - 2 mm from margin; basal veins 5 - 6 pairs, 1st pair free to base, remainder coalesced 4 - 4.5 cm, 2nd pair coalesced to 1 cm, 3rd pair 2.5 - 3 cm, 4th and 5th pairs coalesced 3.5 - 4.5 cm, strongly narrowly raised; posterior rib 4 - 4.5 cm long, completely naked, weakly curved; sinus hippocrepiform, 6.5 - 7.5 cm deep. INFLORESCENCES erect-spreading; peduncle 39.5 cm long, 5 mm diam. midway becoming noticeably tapered near apex, shallowly and obtusely sulcate, drying medium yellowish brown, matte, 2.9 times longer than spathe; spathe 13.5 cm long, 3.5 cm wide, oblong-elliptic, acuminate (acumen 1 cm long) hooding, coriaceous, greenish white inside and green outside, drying medium yellowish brown, matte; spadix sessile, 7 cm long, 9 mm diam. midway, cylindroid-fusiform, drying cylindrical, white mottled with pink, drying dark brown; flowers 9 per spiral, 1.7 - 1.9 mm long, 2.0 - 2.1(2.5) mm wide, lateral tepals 1.2 - 1.2 mm wide, inner margin broadly rounded, 2- to 3-sided, surface minutely granular, stamens not present.