Anthurium longissimum subsp. longissimum

Anthurium longissimum Pittier
var* longissimum
at. George S. Bunting	Jardi'n Botanico de Maracaibo, 1983
, conc.
plate contiguous with genic, proper 6 cm long, genic*
x 2*1 cm. Ped. terete x 2*1 cm, 73 c® long* Spathe
green, reflexed, pendent & somewhat spiraled, 74 x
4*7 cm (base), x 3*7 cm (midptO, upper 13 cm with
Bide8 inrolled strongly, marginally 1-2 mm translu-
cent; leathery-brittle* Spadix 64 cm long (tip
lost ?), just past anthesis It* brown x 1*4 cm (base)
x 1*25 cm (midpt*), pendent* stipe nude abax. 3 mm,
adax* 1*7 cm* Fruiting spadix 1*06 m (!) long, t
cylindric, x 2*8 cm (base), x 2*6 cm (midpt*)$ te—
pals buff, very shortly exserted blunt apices of
pistils greenish or purple; frts* 9 nm tall x 4-4*5
mm, below apex red-purplish in upper 1/3* lower part
white suffused purplish*
UNIVERS.DAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA, MARACAY
HERBARIO, FACULTAD DE AGRONOMIA
FLORA DE VENEZUELA
Anthurium longissimum Pittier
Huge epiphyte climbing up tree trunk 3 m. stem
stout, internodes very abbreviated, with head of bi*
• 72 x 1*3 cm (below Kenic*) * 1 6 / ,
* 7 terete* iiaely mottled 2 tones of green*
Lf*bl* to 1*13 m wide x 78 cm long (outline) leath
ery-brittle, glossy both surfaces? ribs cony«-^^
abax. & meeting in a greatly inflated fan-like
Edo. ARAGUAs Parque Naoional Henri Pittier- near-
a^onE the Fortachuelo-Paraiso trail
in tall cloud forest. El.y. ca. i.aoo m.	’
GEORGE s. bunting 192a	l8 March-8 April 1967
sh&gk I (rt £
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