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The New Refugium Botanicum. Leptotes bicolor
(2019)
Leptotes bicolor Lindl., Edwards’s Bot. Reg.
19: t. 1625. 1833. Syn.: Tetramicra bicolor
(Lindl.) Rolfe, Gard. Chron. 1: t. 20. 1883.
TYPE: Brazil. Organ Mountains, flowered in
cultivation in the “stove” of Mrs. A. ...
Horichia Jenny
(2022)
Rarity, in orchids, is often closer to a perception than to a specific category of frequency, assessed on the basis of documented data. Rare species are frequently only a way to say that they are rarely seen in living ...
The New Refugium Botanicum. Pleurothallis luna-crescens
(2020)
Descripción de un espécimen de Pleurothallis luna-crescens
A just overtime discovery: another new species of Echinosepala (Orchidaceae) from Costa Rica
(2022-08-13)
Echinosepala truncata is described as new to science and illustrated from the holotype. It is compared
with E. tomentosa, from which it differs by the sparsely lanate ovary, the narrowly obovate, apically rounded synsepal, ...
Orchidaceae werckleanae: typification of Costa Rican orchid species described from collections by K. Wercklé
(2010)
A catalogue of 84 orchid species described by R. Schlechter from plants collected in Costa Rica by Karl Wercklé is presented. Lectotypification is provided for 60 of the 84 species. Previously lectotypified species, based ...
Orchids of Paradise
(2018)
WHERE IT ALL BEGAN The Italian explorer and navigator Cristoforo Colombo
(Christopher Columbus, c.1451–1506)
discovered the paradise during his fourth
voyage across the Atlantic Ocean, when
searching for a passage west ...
On the meaning of Cypripedium × grande (Orchidaceae) and its taxonomic history, with a new name for the nothospecies occurring in Costa Rica and Panama
(2018-12-11)
The taxonomic history of Phragmipedium × grande is traced to show that its current treatment as the cross between P. longifolium and P. humboldtii is untenable. According to our interpretation of the holotype and other ...
Phragmipedium humboldtii (Warsz.) J.T. Atwood & Dressler: on the correct name for the Central American long-petaled Phragmipedium; again
(2016)
I was quite convinced that the
complicated taxonomic history of
the Central American long-petaled
Phragmipedium, which has been
misunderstood for over a century and
caused a lot of uncertainties among both
professional ...
Malaxis Sw.
(2020-03-31)
The genus Malaxis was named in 1788 by Olof Swartz. The
name was based on malaxo, Greek for “softening,” apparently
referring to the soft or delicate leaves.
Traditionally Malaxis has been characterized in part by ...
The new Refugium Botanicum. Maxillariella (Maxillaria) tenuifolia
(2017)
Maxillariella tenuifolia (Lindl.) M.A. Blanco & Carnevali, Lankesteriana 7(3): 530. 2007. Basionym: Maxillaria tenuifolia Lindl., Edwards’s Botanical Register 23: sub. t. 1986. 1837. Type: “a native of ...