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Issue: Vol. 484 No. 2: 17 February 2021
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2021-02-17
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.484.2.9
Page range: 244–246
Abstract views: 42
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Phalaenopsis putaoensis (Orchidaceae: Epidendroideae, Vandeae), a new species from Kachin State, Myanmar

State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100864, China.
State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China. Southeast Asia Biodiversity Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yezin, Nay Pyi Taw 15013, Myanmar.
Aeridinae Orchid taxonomy Phalaenopsis honghenensis P. wilsonii Putao Monocots

Abstract

Phalaenopsis putaoensis, a new species of Orchidaceae, is described and illustrated from Putao, Kachin State, Myanmar. Phalaenopsis putaoensis is close to Phalaenopsis honghenensis and P. wilsonii but can be easily distinguished from the latter  two by having falcate lateral lobes adorned with antennae–like appendages and rhombic middle lobe with wartlike calli on disk. A preliminary assessment of the risk of extinction of this new species is Critically Endangered (CR).