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Issue: Vol. 474 No. 1: 27 November 2020
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2020-11-27
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.474.1.10
Page range: 93–98
Abstract views: 47
PDF downloaded: 1

A new species of Acianthera (Orchidaceae, Pleurothallidinae) from the Cordillera Central of Colombia

Grupo de Investigación Schultes, Fundación Ecotonos, Valle del Cauca, Cali, Colombia. Grupo de investigación en Biodiversidad y Dinámica de Ecosistemas Tropicales (GIBDET), Universidad del Tolima, Ibagué, Colombia.
Grupo de Investigación Schultes, Fundación Ecotonos, Valle del Cauca, Cali, Colombia. Grupo de investigación en Biodiversidad y Dinámica de Ecosistemas Tropicales (GIBDET), Universidad del Tolima, Ibagué, Colombia.
Lankester Botanical Garden, University of Costa Rica. P.O. Box 302-7050 Cartago, Costa Rica. Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Endless Forms Group, Leiden University. Sylviusweg 72, 2333 BE Leiden, The Netherlands.
Acianthera nikoleae Acianthera testifolia Apoda-prorepentia taxonomy Tolima Villahermosa Monocots

Abstract

Acianthera Scheidweiler (1842: 292), a genus historically placed under the synonymy of Pleurothallis Brown (1813: 211), was reinstated by Pridgeon & Chase (2001) and redefined on the basis of molecular studies by Pridgeon et al. (2001). Additional DNA-based phylogenetic reconstructions, using broader sets of Acianthera species, resulted in further refinements in the circumscription of genus (Chiron et al. 2012, Karremans & Rincón-González 2015, Karremans et al. 2016).