LEAVES spreading-pendent; petioles terete, (5)8-30 cm long, 2-4 mm diam.; geniculum 1-1.5 cm long; blades oblong, moderately thick, 32-80 cm long, 3-11 cm wide, acuminate at a apex, round to truncate at base; upper surface weakly velvety, obscurely and sparsely glandular-punctate, lower surface semiglossy, sparsely glandular-punctate; midrib convexly raised at base above, more acute toward apex, diminishing and flat at apex, raised at base below, flat from ca. midway to apex; primary lateral veins II-24 per side, departing midrib at 30°-40° angle, raised and nearly obscure above, flat below; lesser veins obscure; collective vein arising from the lowermost primary lateral vein, weakly sunken above, flat to weakly raised below, 5-9 mm from margin.

INFLORESCENCE spreading to pendent, usually shorter than leaves; peduncle 13-42 cm long, 3-7 mm diam.; spathe moderately thin, pale green tinged purplish, ± oblong, 7-11 cm long, 8-13 mm wide, gradually acuminate at apex, inserted at ca. 45° angle on peduncle, withering and curling horizontally or deciduous; spadix pale green to white or grayish-white, straight when young, becoming spiralled in age, 12-80 cm long, 3-5 mm diam. at base, narrowly-tapered to apex; flowers ± 4-lobed, 3-3.1 mm long, 2.4-2.6 mm wide, the sides smoothly sigmoid; 4-5 flowers visible in the principal spiral, ca. 10 flowers visible in the alternate spiral; tepals matte, weakly punctate, minutely papillate, the lateral tepals 1.6-1.7 mm wide, the inner margin broadly rounded; pistils weakly emergent, pale green, glossy; stigmas linear, 0.3 mm long; lateral stamens emerging scattered throughout length of spadix, alternate stamens soon following with no apparent pattern; anthers cream, held at edge of tepals against sides of pistil, ca. 0.7 mm long, ca. 0.6 mm wide; thecae ellipsoid, not divaricate; pollen creamy-white.
INFRUCTESCENCE pendent; berries reddish, ± oblong or globose, ca. 5 mm long, flattened at apex with a central depression. Figs. 220, 226,and 227.

Panamanian plants considered A. wendlingeri range from Veraguas in the west to Code, Panama, and Col—n Provinces on the Atlantic slope and along the Continental Divide in tropical wet forest and premontane rain forest at elevations of 350 to 900 m. Anthurium wendlingeri was described from live material collected in Cartago Province of Costa Rica. The type description reports the inflorescences as being "atropurpureus" and no other flowering material has been seen for Costa Rica. Panamanian collections closely matching this species in vegetative condition, habit and all other aspects consistently have spadices that are white to grayish-while at anthesis. More material must be seen from Costa Rica to determine if those populations really do have purple spadices and to determine if the Panamanian plants arc the same or if they should be considered distinct. One collection from Code (Croat 37329) was reported to have a reddish spadix but it has consistently flowered with a while spadix in cultivation. The species is in section Porphyrochitonium and is distinguished by its coriaceous, oblong, glandular-punctate leaf blades, very elongate, whitish, corkscrew-like spadix and reddish berries. The blades arc weakly velvety and obscurely punctate above and below. It is most easily confused with another Panamanian species, A. pendens Croat (ined.), which occurs in similar habitats in Col—n and Panama Provinces. That species differs, however, in having narrowly oblanceolate blades that are acute at the base and that dry conspicuously blackened, and especially by its slouter, relatively short, greenish-purple to brownish spadix, which never coils. costa rica. hereuia: S of Cariblanco, Croat 35830 (MO).

Map of Mesoamerican specimens with coordinates

Costa Rica Alajuela: 375 m, 10.19.00N 84.11.00W, 18 August 1990, Michael Grayum & Noriaki Murakami 9945 (MO).
Costa Rica Alajuela: 850-1100 m, 10.4N 84.32W, 30 May 1986, Greg de Nevers, Barry Hammel & Carlos Gomez 7787 (MO).
Costa Rica Lim—n: 400 m, 10.02N 83.27W, 5 September 1988, Michael Grayum, Gerardo Herrera & Rafael Robles 8807 (MO).
Costa Rica Lim—n: 700-900 m, 9.27.00N 82.59.30W, 9 July 1989, Barry Hammel, A. Chacón, F. Corrales & G. Herrera 17614 (MO).
Costa Rica Lim—n: 550 m, 9.25.15N 82.59.00W, 20 July 1989, Gerardo Herrera 3320 (MO).
Costa Rica Lim—n: 0-1450 m, 09.23.58N 83.06.00W, 12 March 1992, Heidi Schmidt & Reinaldo Aguilar 651 (MO).
Costa Rica Lim—n: 850 m, 09.14750"N 83.10530"W, 05 Apr 1989, Herrera et. al 2510 (CR, MO).
Costa Rica Lim—n: P.N. Cordillera de Talamanca;  1700 m, 09.23.20N 83.12.20W, 28 March 1993, Alvaro Fernandez 860 (CR).
Costa Rica Lim—n: Río Costa Rica, 250 m, 10.25.5N 83.52.00W, 15 Feb 1989, Horich, C. s.n. (CR).
Costa Rica Lim—n: 250 m,, March 1990, Thomas B. Croat 71837 (MO).
Costa Rica Puntarenas:, 31 May 1986, Christenson 1525 (MO).
Costa Rica San José: 1100-1200 m, 09.33.30N 84.03.15W, 5 September 1996, Thomas B. Croat 78902 (MO).
Nicaragua Río San Juan: 100 - 250 m, 11.01N 084.13W, 5 Enero 1997, Ricardo Rueda, Indiana Coronado, Oscar Aráuz & Franklin Flores 5384 .
Panama Bocas del Toro: 850 m, 08.48N 82.13W, 29 March 1993, Thomas B. Croat 74925 (MO).
Panama Bocas del Toro: 175 m, 8.46N 82.16W, 25 June 1987, Thomas B. Croat 66821 (MO).
Panama CoclŽ: 200-400 m,, 3 Feb. 1983, C. Hamilton & G. Davidse 2659 (MO).
Panama CoclŽ: 800-900 m, 8.38N 80.09W, 12 July 1987, Thomas B. Croat 67181 (MO, WU).
Panama Darien: 1300-1400 m, 08.04.30N 77.14.00W, 21 octubre 1987, Hermes Cuadros, B. Hammel, G. deNevers y H. Herrera 3950 (MO).
Panama Panamá: 700-750 m, 9.15N 79.25W, 19 June 1988, Thomas B. Croat 68678 (MO,SCZ).
Panama Panamá: 750 m, 9.15N 79.30W, 23 Jan. 1986, Gordon McPherson & M. Merello 8130 (MO).
Panama San Blas: 350 m, 9.15N 79.00W, 27 Jan. 1986, Gordon McPherson & M. Merello 8173 (MO). Panama San Blas: 60-100 m, 9.24N 79.08W, 28 Jan 1985, Greg de Nevers 4705 (MO).
Panama San Blas: 325 m, 9.19N 78.35W, 28 Aug. 1984, Greg de Nevers 3781 (MO).