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Type: Article
Published: 2021-03-12
Page range: 159–171
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Acianthera bilobulata (Orchidaceae: Pleurothallidinae), a new species from Southwestern Ecuador

Orquiecuador y Gloxinias, Sucre y García Moreno, esquina frente al Parque central, 071050 Piñas, El Oro, Ecuador.
Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Centro Interdisciplinario de Investigación para el Desarrollo Integral Regional Unidad Oaxaca, Hornos 1003, Santa Cruz Xoxocotlán, 71230, Oaxaca, México.
Acianthera henrici Acianthera pubescens new taxon semi-deciduous premontane forest steno-endemic taxonomy Monocots

Abstract

Acianthera bilobulata is described and illustrated as new species. Information concerning distribution, habitat, phenology, and conservation status are provided. The new taxon is compared with the most similar species A. pubescens, from which it differs by its elliptic-lanceolate leaves, yellow-cream flowers suffused with red-purple, acute, marginally erose petals, and an oblong, obtuse, marginally entire lip with oblong, rounded lateral lobes. Furthermore, A. bilobulata is compared with other three morphologically similar species, A. breedlovei, A. henrici, and A. majakoluckae.