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Myoxanthus fimbriatus 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

17. Myoxanthus fimbriatus Luer & Hirtz (1992: 38–39). (Fig. 14F,G)

TYPE:— ECUADOR. Napo: Cotundo, 1100 m, collected by A. Hirtz, flowered in cultivation in Quito, 18 Mar 1985, Hirtz 2245 (holotype: MO!).

Distribution: — Ecuador, Peru.

Notes:— This proliferous species with purplish flowers is similar to the also proliferous M. scandens and the nonproliferous M. antennifer. It is recognized by acuminate lateral sepals vs. acute in M. scandens and M. antennifer and the fimbriate margin of the petals vs. margins shortly ciliate in M. scandens and entire in M. antennifer.

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

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
A , TYPE
Event date
1985-03-18
Verbatim event date
1985-03-18
Scientific name authorship
Luer & Hirtz
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Order
Asparagales
Family
Orchidaceae
Genus
Myoxanthus
Species
fimbriatus
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Myoxanthus fimbriatus Luer, 1992 sec. Rojas-Alvarado, Blanco & Karremans, 2021