Anthurium barreranum Croat & D.C.Bay

CATE Araceae, 17 Dec 2011. araceae.e-monocot.org

General Description

Epiphytic or terrestrial; stem short; internodes to 1 cm long, 5 - 9 mm diam., semiglossy to glossy, smooth, medium green, drying pale tan; roots few per node; cataphylls 3 - 10 cm long, 1-ribbed, medium green, drying medium brown, deciduous. LEAVES erect-spreading; petioles 20 - 31 cm x 2 - 3 mm (dry), terete, sometimes 1-ribbed adaxially, matte, medium green, drying medium brown; geniculum 8 - 15 mm long, drying darker than petiole; blades subcoriaceous, ovate, abruptly long-acuminate at apex, cordate at abase, 20 - 28 x 9.5 - 11 cm, 2.1 - 2.7 times longer than wide, 0.8 - 1 times as long as petiole, upper surface semiglossy to glossy, medium green, drying glossy and medium brown, lower surface semiglossy and slightly paler, drying glossy and slightly paler; anterior lobe 26 - 18? x 9.5 - 11 cm, 5.1 - 10.2 times longer than posterior lobes; posterior lobes 2.6 - 4 x 2.5 - 5 cm, rounded; sinus 1.5 - 3 cm deep; major veins drying concolorous, barely raised above, darker than surface, round-raised below; midrib narrowly raised, paler above, convex, paler below; primary lateral veins 6 to 7 per side, departing from midrib at a 35° - 45° angle, gradually curving to collective veins, narrowly sunken above, narrowly and acutely raised, paler below; basal veins 3 to 4 per side, free from base; collective veins 3 - 5 mm from blade margin, originating from first basal vein; tertiary veins barely visible above, slightly raised below. INFLORESCENCE erect; peduncle to 15 cm x 1 - 3 mm (dry), terete, medium green, drying brown; spathe to 10 cm long, light green; spadix lost, described as dark purple. INFRUCTESCENCE unknown.

Habitat

Occurring in Tropical wet forest transition to Premontane) T-wf/P), in regrowth and primary forests.

Distribution

The species is known only from the Bajo Calima region.