Araceae
Anthurium trujilloi Croat
Nomenclature
SUMMARY
Epiphytic; internodes very short, 3.5 - 4.5 cm diam.; cataphylls lanceolate, 12 - 16 cm long, remaining intact and turning dark brown, persistent; petioles 6.4 - 12 cm long, 1.0 - 1.2 cm diam., drying 0.7 - 0.5 cm diam., narrowly rounded abaxially, sometimes with a bluntly acute medial ridge abaxially, sometimes with one or more faint ridges along the sides, flattened adaxially with prominently raised, inturned lateral margins and an even more prominent medial ridge, medium-dark green and weakly glossy, weakly tinged purplish near the base, drying medium brown; blades narrowly oblong-oblanceolate, 78.9 - 90 cm long, 11 - 17.5 cm wide, 5.6 - 7.2 times longer than wide, broadest slightly above the middle, gradually acuminate at apex, acute to narrowly rounded at base, subcoriaceous, dark green and semiglossy above, slightly paler and slightly more glossy below, drying dark gray-green above, lighter grey-green below; midrib sharply acute on both surfaces, concolorous above, slightly paler below with the sides of the midrib rounded; primary lateral veins 12 - 13 pairs, arising at a steep angle then spreading at ca. a 45° angle, thickly and narrowly raised, almost concolorous above, narrowly rounded and slightly paler below; tertiary veins in part weakly raised; collective veins arising from one of the uppermost primary lateral veins. INFLORESCENCE erect-spreading; peduncle 38 - 45.5 cm long, 0.6 - 1.0 cm wide, dark green weakly glossy, drying 0.4 - 0.5 cm diam., dark brown; spathe 15 - 15.5 cm long, 2.2 - 2.4 cm wide at anthesis, medium green, matte inside, semiglossy outside, acuminate at apex, acute at base, drying 10.6 - 12.2 cm long, 1.3 - 1.5 wide, dark brown; spadix sessile, pale creamy yellow, matte, 10.7 - 15.4 cm long, 7 - 12 mm diam. at anthesis, with sweet fruity scent at anthesis, turning grayish green and 13.5 cm long, 1.5 cm diam. post-anthesis, eventually somewhat purplish in age, drying dark brown; flowers 9 - 10visible perspiral, 1.8mm long, 1.5 mm wide; lateral tepals 1.1 mm wide.