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Myoxanthus antennifer Luer & Hirtz 1992

  • 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

3. Myoxanthus antennifer Luer & Hirtz (1992: 18‒19). (Fig. 12D)

TYPE:— ECUADOR. Zamora-Chinchipe: Cordillera del Condor, epiphytic in forest east of Los Encuentros, 1650 m, 21 Jan 1989, Luer et al. 14035 (holotype: MO!).

Distribution: — Ecuador and Peru.

Notes:— This species is frequently misidentified as M. fimbriatus (and vice versa), but M. antennifer has nonprolific ramicauls (vs. prolific ones), a lip with a conspicuous longitudinal pair of apical keels and conspicuously dentate midlobe margins (vs. lip with a longitudinal pair of low keels in the middle and a midlobe minutely dentate at the apex, frequently apiculate).

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 230, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.507.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5425729

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
TYPE
Event date
1989-01-21
Verbatim event date
1989-01-21
Scientific name authorship
Luer & Hirtz
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Order
Asparagales
Family
Orchidaceae
Genus
Myoxanthus
Species
antennifer
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Myoxanthus antennifer Luer, 1992 sec. Rojas-Alvarado, Blanco & Karremans, 2021