The New Refugium Botanicum. Stenia dodsoniana
Resumen
Stenia dodsoniana Pupulin, Harvard
Pap. Bot. 12: 8. 2007. TYPE: Ecuador.
Without collecting data, a plant grown
by Ecuagenera at Gualaceo flowered in
cultivation at Jardín Botánico Lankester
(JBL), Universidad de Costa Rica, accession
No.13525, 2 November 2006, F. Pupulin
6340 (holotype, JBL-Spirit).
Epiphytic, caespitose herbs without
pseudobulbs. Roots terete, thick, flexuous,
produced from the short rhizome. Stem
abbreviated, enclosed by 3–4 imbricating
sheaths, provided with hyaline margins
becoming scarious with age, the upper
ones foliaceous. Leaves conduplicate,
articulate, membranaceous, broadly
elliptic-oblanceolate, obtuse to rounded,
6–10 × 2.5–3.5 cm, lightly veined, abaxially
sharply carinate, narrowed at the base
into a distinct, conduplicate petiole to
3.5 cm long, dark green, the abaxial
surface paler. Inflorescence lateral, a singleflowered raceme produced from the axil
of the lower sheaths, to 2 cm long; the
peduncle terete, slender, laxly pendent,
basally provided with a tubular-imbricating,
papyraceous bract, ca. 5 mm long. Floral
bract double, conduplicate, the external
one widely ovate-suborbicular, obtuse,
membranaceous, loose, 5 × 7 mm, the
subopposite internal bractlet lanceolate,
acute, 6 × 4 mm.
Ilustraciones por Sylvia Strigari
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