The New Refugium Botanicum. Chaubardiella pacuarensis
Resumen
Chaubardiella pacuarensisJenny, Orchideen
(Hamburg) 40:91. 1989. Type: Costa Rica.
[Turrialba]: road by Río Pacuare near
Turrialba, R. Jenny3 (holotype, G).
Epiphytic, caespitose herbs to 25 cm
tall. Roots thick, about 2 mm in diameter.
Stem completely hidden by the imbricating
sheaths. Sheaths strongly conduplicate, the
basal ones provided with scarious margins,
to 2 cm long, the upper one foliaceous.
Leaves 3–5, the conduplicate base 1.5–2.0
cm long, the blade elliptic-oblanceolate,
acuminate, strongly carinate abaxially, 10–
21 x 1.2–2.8 cm, dark green. Inflorescence
basal, 1–3 per shoot, unifloral, peduncle
to 4 cm long, provided with 2–3 triangular,
acute bracts. Floral bracts in pairs, the
outer one infundibular, broadly ovate,
acute, to 8 × 7 mm, the inner lanceolateelliptic, 10 × 3–4 mm. Ovary and pedicel
terete-subclavate, to 5 mm long. Flower
nonresupinate, pendent, translucent
white to greenish cream.
Ilustraciones por Sylvia Strigari
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