The New Refugium Botanicum. Phragmipedium × talamancanum

Abstract

Phragmipedium × talamancanum Pupulin and M.Díaz, Phytotaxa 382(2):177. 2018. Type: Costa Rica. Puntarenas, Coto Brus, vicinity of the Panamian border, epiphytic on fallen tree, legit C.H. Lankester and J.M. Lankester Hawker, 1945, cultivated at the Lankester Botanical Garden, University of Costa Rica, accession no. JBL-17839 (holotype, JBL; isotypes, JBL, USJ). An epiphytic, fan-shaped plant up to 45 cm tall. Leaves to 9, ensiform, acute, coriaceous, mid-green, 19.5–47.0 × 2.0–4.5 cm. Inflorescence erect to gently arched, shorter than the leaves, unbranched, successively flowered, 23–30 cm long; peduncle terete, dark green, up to 20 cm long, enclosed in the mid-portion by an ovate, conduplicate, loose, glumaceousfibrose, green bract, 11.0–11.5 × 2.0–2.5 cm. Floral bracts conduplicate, ovate, acute, loose, glumaceous-fibrose, green, 3.5–5.3 × 1.0–1.5 cm. Pedicel and ovary 85–112 × 4.0–4.5 mm, green suffused dark red, arcuate to almost pendent, finely white pubescent.