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Issue: Vol. 620 No. 1: 12 Oct. 2023
Type: Article
Published: 2023-10-12
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.620.1.6
Page range: 70-78
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Pleurothallis inaudita, an unnoticed new species in Pleurothallidinae (Orchidaceae) 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
Monocots new taxon Pleurothallis subsection Acroniae Pleurothallis subsection Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae taxonomy

Abstract

A new orchid species in Pleurothallis subsection Acroniae, is described and illustrated from Ecuador. Information concerning its distribution, habitat and phenology is provided. The new taxon is named as P. inaudita and is compared with the most similar species, P. imitor, from which it differs by its amber flowers suffused with red-purple (vs. yellow), lanceolate dorsal sepal (vs. ovate), ensiform petals (vs. oblong-subfalcate), and an ovate-triangular lip with an oblate callus (vs. triangular-sagittate with an oblong callus). Furthermore, P. inaudita is compared with P. tryssa and other morphologically similar species, member of Pleurothallis subsection Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae, P. crucifera.

 

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