Araceae
Anthurium pageanum Croat
SUMMARY
Epiphyte; stems short, 0.8-1.8 cm diam.; roots numerous, to 1 cm diam., green, descending; cataphylls moderately thick, 1.5-4 cm long, acuminate at apex, drying brown, weathering into fine persistent fibers, more or less intact at apex. LEAVES erect-spreading; petioles 2.5-20 cm long, 2.4 mm diam., more or less triangular, the margins sharp, sometimes 4-5-winged, conspicuously dark glandular-punctate on surface; geniculum usually 3-sided, 0.5-1.5 cm long, the abaxial rib usually undulate; blades subcoriaceous, lanceolate to oblong-elliptic, short-acuminate (the acumen apiculate, often down-turned), acute at base, 11-28 cm long, 3-7 cm wide, broadest at middle or just below; both surfaces semiglossy, the upper surface inconspicuously dark (purple-brown) glandular-punctate, the lower surface paler, dark glandular-punctate; midrib acutely raised above and below; primary lateral veins 7-14 per side, departing midrib at 40-65° angle, more or less straight or weakly curved to collective vein, sunken in valleys above, raised below; interprimary veins scarcely visible; collective vein arising from the base, 2-6 mm from margin, sunken above, raised below. INFLORESCENCE equalling or shorter than leaves; peduncle (9-)16-30(-43) cm long, 2-3 mm diam., terete; spathe thin, pale green, faintly tinged red-violet, oblong-lanceolate, 3-5 cm long, 8-15 mm wide, broadest just above base, short-acuminate at apex, acute to rounded at base, inserted at 55° angle on peduncle; spadix yellow-green (B & K Yellow-green 6/7.5), narrowly tapered to apex, 4.7-6.2(-9) cm long, 3-4 mm diam. at base, 1-2 mm diam. at apex; flowers rhombic to 4-lobed, ca. 4 mm long, ca. 3 mm wide, the sides jaggedly sigmoid, 3-4 flowers visible in the principal spiral, 5-6 visible in the alternate spiral; tepals matte, minutely papillate, the lateral tepals ca. 2 mm wide, the inner margin straight; pistils raised, green; stigmas 0.6 mm long, oblong, darker green than pistil; stamens emerging from near the base, laterals emerging first followed quickly by alternates, stamens retracting after anthesis; anthers white; pollen white. INFRUCTESCENCE erect-spreading, the spadix to 11 cm long; berries red (B & K Red 5/7.5), obovoid, truncate at apex, 4.5-5 mm in both directions; mesocarp thick, fleshy, juicy, translucent; seeds 4, greenish white, weakly flattened, 1.7-2.6 mm long, 1.2-1.9 mm wide, 1-1.1 mm thick, slightly depressed at apex with a short, sticky, translucent appendage.