The New Refugium Botanicum. Phragmipedium × talamancanum
revista divulgativa
Date
2019Author
Díaz Morales, Melissa
Pupulin, Franco
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Phragmipedium × talamancanum Pupulin
and M.Díaz, Phytotaxa 382(2):177. 2018.
Type: Costa Rica. Puntarenas, Coto Brus,
vicinity of the Panamian border, epiphytic
on fallen tree, legit C.H. Lankester and J.M.
Lankester Hawker, 1945, cultivated at the
Lankester Botanical Garden, University
of Costa Rica, accession no. JBL-17839
(holotype, JBL; isotypes, JBL, USJ).
An epiphytic, fan-shaped plant up to
45 cm tall. Leaves to 9, ensiform, acute,
coriaceous, mid-green, 19.5–47.0 × 2.0–4.5
cm. Inflorescence erect to gently arched,
shorter than the leaves, unbranched,
successively flowered, 23–30 cm long;
peduncle terete, dark green, up to 20 cm
long, enclosed in the mid-portion by an
ovate, conduplicate, loose, glumaceousfibrose, green bract, 11.0–11.5 × 2.0–2.5
cm. Floral bracts conduplicate, ovate,
acute, loose, glumaceous-fibrose, green,
3.5–5.3 × 1.0–1.5 cm. Pedicel and ovary
85–112 × 4.0–4.5 mm, green suffused
dark red, arcuate to almost pendent, finely
white pubescent.
Ilustraciones por Sylvia Strigari
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