The Surinamese lawyer and botanist Hendrik (Henri) Charles Focke (Paramaribo, 1802-1856) originally described the genus Plectrophora in 1848 in the journal of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, on the basis ...

Phalaenopsis lueddemanniana Rchb.f., Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 23: 146. 1865. Phalaenopsis luddemannii Náves, Novis. App. 243. 1882, sphalm. Polychilos lueddemanniana (Rchb.f.) Shim, MalayanNat. J.) 36(1): 24. 1982. ...

Sobralia turrialbina is described and illustrated from Costa Rica. The new species is compared with the morphologically similar S. chrysostoma, from which can be distinguished by the leaves restricted to the terminal third ...

Specklinia dunstervillei is described as a new species in recognition of the distinctness of a Venezuelan species related to and confused with Specklinia endotrachys. It was illustrated for the first time by G. C. K. ...

Kegeliella kupperi Mansf., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 36:60–61. 1934. TYPE: Costa Rica. “Probably Guanacaste, Tilaran, west slope of the Cordilleras heading northwest; cult. Hort, Münich, 24 Jan. 1933, import. W. ...

Orchid collectors, as well as scientists, know that some species are rarer than others. “Know” should perhaps be used in this context with some caution as, in general, rarity is something closer to a perception than ...

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, ...

Subtribe Pleurothallidinae is possibly the most species-rich of all orchid groups. Nevertheless, they are a young group of plants in terms of scientific learning. The last three decades have been the most active with respect ...

Stelis, one of the largest genera within Pleuro- thallidinae, was recently recircumscribed to include a few hundred more species, most of which had previously been assigned to Pleurothallis. Here, a new phylogenetic anal- ...

The identity of Pleurothallis luctuosa, its taxonomic history and geographic distribution are discussed, and the species is described and illustrated. A new species from Costa Rica, P. neglecta, is described and illustrated. ...