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Issue: Vol. 650 No. 2: 28 May 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-05-28
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.650.2.6
Page range: 185-193
Abstract views: 45
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A new species of Epidendrum (Laeliinae: Orchidaceae) from the province of Zamora Chinchipe in Ecuador

Floplaya, Compañía de flores y plantas Yantzaza S.A., El Pangui, 190650, Ecuador
Herbario AMO, Montañas Calizas 490, Miguel Hidalgo, CDMX 11000, México
Grupo Científico Calaway Dodson: Investigación y Conservación de Orquídeas del Ecuador, Quito, 170510, Pichincha, Ecuador. Herbario HUTPL, Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, San Cayetano Alto s/n 11-01-608, Loja, Ecuador, Ecuador.
Amichi Lounge, Vía a Gualaquiza - San Juan Bosco, E45 s/n., Morona Santiago, Ecuador
Universidad de Las Américas
School of Environment, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Cordillera del Cóndor Incomptum premontane forests southeastern Ecuador taxonomy Monocots

Abstract

A new species of Epidendrum from the province of Zamora Chinchipe, belonging to the Incomptum informal group, is described and illustrated. Information on its distribution, habitat, phenology, and conservation status is provided. The new species, Epidendrum quimiense, is compared with Epidendrum marci-jimeneziorum, Epidendrum chisquillense and Epidendrum ulcumanoae from which it is easily distinguished by having green to yellowish-green flowers, the ovary ventrally inflated along the apical half and the lip bilobed, reniform with the sides strongly revolute and apron-shaped.

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