The New Refugium Botanicum. Stenotyla lankesteriana

Abstract

Stenotyla lankesteriana (Pupulin) Dressler, Lankesteriana 5:96 (2005). Basionym: Chondrorhyncha lankesteriana Pupulin, Lindleyana 15:21 (2000). Type: Costa Rica. Without definite locality, a confiscated plant flowered in cultivation at Lankester Botanic Garden at Paraíso de Cartago, 1,400 m,19 May 1999, F. Pupulin 1467 (holotype USJ; isotype SEL-spirit!). An epiphytic, caespitose, fan-shaped herb to about 20 cm tall. Pseudobulb vestigial, ovoid, complanate, ca. 10 x 4-5 mm, completely hidden by the leaf sheaths, apically provided with a rudimentary leaf and enclosed by 5–9 distichous sheaths, the upper ones foliaceous. Leaves subcoriaceous, oblanceolate to linearlanceolate, acute, with slightly undulate margins, 7–20 × 1–1.3 cm, contracted at the base into a conduplicate petiole to 2.8 cm long. Inflorescences 1–2 per shoot, erect to gently arched, single-flowered, lateral, produced from the base of the stem and arising from the axil of basal cataphylls; peduncle terete, stout, 3.2–4.2 cm long, provided with a funnel-shaped, broadly ovate, acute bract 7 mm long. Floral bract conspicuous, funnel-shaped, acute to acuminate, 7 mm long.