Lankesteriana International Journal on Orchidology ISSN: 1409-3871
[email protected] Universidad de Costa Rica Costa Rica Bogarín, Diego; Oses, Lizbeth; Smith, Christina M. MASDEVALLIA LUERORUM (ORCHIDACEAE: PLEUROTHALLIDINAE), A NEW SPECIES FROM COSTA RICA Lankesteriana International Journal on Orchidology, vol. 17, núm. 2, 2017, pp. 235-244 Universidad de Costa Rica Cartago, Costa Rica Available in: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=44353160012 How to cite Complete issue Scientific Information System More information about this article Network of Scientific Journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal Journal's homepage in redalyc.org Non-profit academic project, developed under the open access initiative LANKESTERIANA 17(2): 235–244. 2017. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.15517/lank.v17i2.30100 MASDEVALLIA LUERORUM (ORCHIDACEAE: PLEUROTHALLIDINAE), A NEW SPECIES FROM COSTA RICA DIEGO BOGARÍN1,2,4, LIZBETH OSES1 & CHRISTINA M. SMITH3 1 Jardín Botánico Lankester, Universidad de Costa Rica, P. O. Box 302-7050 Cartago, Costa Rica 2 Herbario UCH, Universidad Autónoma de Chiriquí, David, Panamá 3 Dept. of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108, U.S.A. 4 Author for correspondence:
[email protected] ABSTRACT. Masdevallia luerorum from the southern Pacific region of Costa Rica is described and illustrated. It resembles M. lata, but differs in the single flowered inflorescence, the shorter sepals, the broad and cylindrical sepaline tube, the smaller mentum beneath the column-foot, a smaller secondary mentum, a slight deflection between the two mentums, and the lip with marginal folds near the middle, apically rounded and conspicuously verrucose.