Anthurium ovatifolium Engl.

Epiphytic or sometimes terrestrial; internodes short, 2.7-5 cm diam.; cataphylls subcoriaceous, to 25 cm long, persisting semi-intact as a thick reticulum of fibers, drying tan or reddish brown; petioles (35-)48-72 cm long (averaging 60 cm), 4-6 mm diam., U-shaped, sharply V-sulcate adaxially; blades ovate to broadly ovate, obtuse and rounded at apex, rounded at base, 29-53 cm long, 14-40 cm wide (averaging 49 x 29 cm), 1.2-2.1 times longer than broad, .6-.9 times as long as the petioles, broadest between middle and base, moderately coriaceous, glossy and moderately bicolorous; midrib narrow, convex and slightly paler above, narrowly rounded below; basal veins 3-7 pairs, largely free to base 2 reaching to apex, 1-5 terminating at margin, varying widely in distance from margin; primary lateral veins ca. 20-30 per side, departing midrib at ca. 45° angles, quilted-sunken above, pleated-raised below; INFLORESCENCES erect; peduncle 45- 60 cm long, 5-7 mm diam.; spathe reflexed, chartaceous, light green, sometimes tinged purplish on the back and margin, drying dark brown, 14-16 cm long, 2.5-3.5 cm wide, oblong; spadix pale yellow-green to greenish yellow, greenish toward tip or brown, sessile or weakly stipitate, cylindroid or weakly tapered, erect, 12- 20 cm long, 8-12 mm diam. at base, 8-10 mm diam. at apex; pollen white. INFRUCTESCENCES with fruiting spadix cylindroid or weakly tapered, (20-)24-30 cm long, 24-32 cm diam. at base, 22-28 cm diam. at apex; pistils early emergent; berries early emergent, green, becoming bright red, acute at apex.