Bauhinia proboscidea is a shrub or tree from 4 to 12 metres tall with a diameter from 10 to 25 cm when mature, sometimes reported as scandent. This species occurs on the Pacific slope of central and southern Costa Rica and ...

On April 11, 2019, Dr. William Mark Whitten, a prolific neotropical orchid biologist passed away unexpectedly. He leaves an extensive corpus of work focused on (but not limited to) orchid pollination and systematics, ...

If one goes orchid hunting in the forests of Central or South America, odds are that one of the first orchids you will encounter will be a Maxillaria or one of its close relatives. Maxillarias comprise a large percentage ...

El texto hace referencia a las orquídeas, para este caso toma en cuenta la especie de Lepanthes, se centra en tres aspectos importantes: la reproducción, las mentiras y la polinización de esta planta.

The world of orchid academia was rocked on April 12, 2019 when the shocking and completely unexpected news that Mark Whitten had passed began to circulate. Many readers of Orchids magazine may not be familiar with ...

The fruits of Maxillaria nardoides are fusiform, 1–1.2 × 0.3 cm. Upon dehiscence, six valves separate completely at the apex, and a long cylindric mass (up to 6.5 cm long × 3 mm in diameter) of white hygroscopic trichomes ...

Based upon morphological and molecular evidence, Maxillaria huancabambae (Kraenzl.) C. Schweinf. and M. saragurensis Dodson are transferred to Pityphyllum Schltr. These and other species of Pityphyllum are illustrated with ...

A pesar de que a veces parece que el mundo se ha vuelto demasiado pequeño y muy bien conocido, todavía hay algunos lugares remotos y solitarios que no han sido totalmente conquistados por el hombre. La Isla del Coco es uno ...

Geonoma epetiolata is the only neotropical palm that exhibits substantial leaf mottling. This article provides a summary of its biology and conservation, some observations of natural populations and a discussion of the ...