Anthurium metallicum

Terrestrial to hemiepiphytic herb; stems erect or suberect, with long adventitious roots, growing down laxly to the soil, 4-6 mm diam., violet-purple, departing in groups of 5 or more around the stem; stems to ca. 1 m long, brownish gray, erect or repent; internodes 2.5-3.2 cm long, 3.6-4.3 cm diam.; leaf scars circular to elliptic, to 3.5 cm wide, 3.6-4.3 cm high; cataphylls dark red to purplish violet, 27 cm long, persisting as longitudinal fibers forming a network of fibers, straw-colored. LEAVES sub-erect to spreading, aggregated mostly at the apex of the stem; petioles (40-)74-92 cm long, 0.8-1.3 cm diam., terete, deeply sulcate adaxially toward the apex, smooth, light green to purplish violet in the apical portion and near the base; geniculum (2.0-)3.5-6 cm long, 1 cm diam., deeply sulcate; blades (30-)55-70 cm long, (25-)35-48 cm wide; margins undulate; upper surface dark lustrous green and velvety above with major veins light green to cream along the major veins; the major veins prominently U-shaped on lower surface; midnb and basal veins pale green, bluntly V-sulcate above, tinged with violet-purple at the insertion of the petiole; primary lateral veins (4-)8-10 pairs slender and prominent; interprimary veins and secondary veins flat to weakly sunken above; lower surface light yellow-green; minor veins sunken, dark green; collective veins arising from the 1st pair of basal veins, 1 cm from the margins. INFLORESCENCE erect to slightly spreading; peduncle 24-31 cm long, 0.8-1.0 cm diam., green, purplish violet near the base, purplish violet to red near the apex; spathe dark pink to red, 15-21 cm long, 2-7.5 cm wide, elliptic, coriaceous, recurved at anthesis; spadix stipitate (stipe 1.5 cm long, 9 mm diam.), slightly darker green than the spathe, yellowish green, 12.5-19 cm long, to 1.4 cm diam. INFRUCTESCENCE 31-40 cm long, 2.8-3 cm diam.; berries yellow at maturity.