Publication Type: | Journal Article |
Year of Publication: | 2013 |
Authors: | A. P. Karremans, Bogarin D. |
Journal: | Systematic Botany |
Volume: | 38 |
Pagination: | 307-315 |
Type of Article: | Journal Article |
ISSN: | 0363-6445 |
Abstract: | Three new species of Dracontia are described and illustrated from Costa Rica and comparisons with close relatives are made. A short discussion for the preference of describing them in Dracontia instead of Stelis is given. The three species are afterwards described: Dracontia montis-mortense, a species with a unique whitish lip with three purple stripes, which is found along the Pan-American Highway on the Cerro de la Muerte, and has been confused with Dracontia dracontea; Dracontia pileata, recognized by its hat-like dorsal sepal, and Dracontia viridi-flava, recognized by its all green-yellow flowers and erose lip. The latter species are both native to the south-Pacific watershed of the Talamanca Cordillera and closely related to Dracontia conochila and Dracontia hydra. A key to the Costa Rican species of Dracontia is given, accompanied by a discussion of the included species. |
URL: | <Go to ISI>://WOS:000319893400003 |
DOI: | 10.1600/036364413x666796 |
Three New Species of Dracontia (Pleurothallidinae, Orchidaceae) from Costa Rica
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