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Issue: Vol. 496 No. 3: 14 April 2021
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2021-04-14
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.496.3.9
Page range: 297–300
Abstract views: 19
PDF downloaded: 1

A long-hidden pigmy shows itself again after almost a century: the rediscovery and lectotypification of Pygmaeorchis brasiliensis (Laeliinae, Orchidaceae) 

Companhia de Saneamento Básico do Estado de São Paulo, 11670-401, Caraguatatuba, São Paulo, Brazil.
Programa de Pós-graduação em Biodiversidade e Conservação da Natureza, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, CEP 36036-900, Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Programa de Pós-graduação em Biodiversidade e Conservação da Natureza, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, CEP 36036-900, Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Departamento de Botânica, Herbário Leopoldo Krieger, CEP 36036-900, Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
taxonomy conservation nomenclature Monocots

Abstract

Pygmaeorchis Brade (1939: 42) is a rare genus endemic to the Atlantic Forest in Brazil. The two known species are exclusively found in the montane areas of the Minas Gerais (MG) and Rio de Janeiro (RJ) states (Withner 1990, van den Berg 2006). The first species to be recognized, Pygmaeorchis brasiliensis Brade (1939: 43), was described on the basis of collections made in the rainforests at Serra dos Órgãos and Itatiaia (RJ). While the second, P. seidelii Toscano de Brito & Moutinho Neto (1981: 194), was found as an epiphyte on Velloziaceae in Ouro Preto (MG) (Fig. 1).