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Myoxanthus xiphion Luer 1982
- 1. Jardín Botánico Lankester, Universidad de Costa Rica, Cartago, Apartado 302 - 7050, Costa Rica & gustavo. rojasalvarado @ uc. ac. cr; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 8918 - 0823
- 2. Jardín Botánico Lankester, Universidad de Costa Rica, Cartago, Apartado 302 - 7050, Costa Rica & Centro de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Ecología Tropical, Universidad de Costa Rica, Apdo. 11501 - 2060 San José, Costa Rica & Escuela de Biología, Universidad de Costa Rica, Apdo. 11501 - 2060 San José, Costa Rica & mario. blancocoto @ ucr. ac. cr; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7369 - 5411
- 3. Jardín Botánico Lankester, Universidad de Costa Rica, Cartago, Apartado 302 - 7050, Costa Rica & Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Endless Forms, Sylviusweg 72, Leiden 2333 BE, The Netherlands & akarremans @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 5987 - 7710
Description
52. Myoxanthus xiphion Luer (1982a: 51). (Fig. 18L)
TYPE:— Ecuador. Napo: epiphytic in wet forest south of Baeza, 1500 m, 11 Aug 1978, Luer, Luer, Andreetta & Hirtz 3267 (holotype,: SEL!).
Distribution: — Ecuador, Colombia, Bolivia and Peru.
Notes:— This species is similar to M. parvilabius in having lateral sepals connate at the base forming a flat synsepal and falcate petals. However, M. xiphion is distinguished by the caespitose habit vs. proliferous, yellowish flowers vs. purplish and subquadrate base of the petals, trilobed just above the middle and abruptly contracted into a falcate middle lobe vs. obovate base contracted into a slender falcate apex.
Notes
Published as part of Rojas-Alvarado, Gustavo, Blanco, Mario A. & Karremans, Adam P., 2021, A taxonomic synopsis and morphological characterization of Myoxanthus (Orchidaceae: Pleurothallidinae), pp. 211-258 in Phytotaxa 507 (3) on page 252, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.507.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5425729
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Related works
- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.11646/phytotaxa.507.3.1 (DOI)
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Biodiversity
- Collection code
- TYPE
- Event date
- 1978-08-11
- Family
- Orchidaceae
- Genus
- Myoxanthus
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Order
- Asparagales
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Scientific name authorship
- Luer
- Species
- xiphion
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Verbatim event date
- 1978-08-11
- Taxonomic concept label
- Myoxanthus xiphion Luer, 1982 sec. Rojas-Alvarado, Blanco & Karremans, 2021
References
- Luer, C. A. (1982 a) A reevaluation of the genus Myoxanthus (Orchidaceae). Selbyana 7: 34 - 54. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 14425