This issue of Lankesteriana is dedicated to the memory of the great Mexican botanist and orchidologist, MIGUEL ÁNGEL SOTO ARENAS (1963—2009), tragically murdered in Mexico on August 27th, 2009 ISSN 1409-3871 VOL. 9, No. 3 JANUARY 2010 Miguel Ángel Soto Arenas (1963-2009) EDUARDO A. PÉREZ GARCÍA & ERIC HÁGSATER 269 In memoriam: Miguel Ángel Soto Arenas (1963-2009) ERIC HÁGSATER 273 Miguel Ángel Soto Arenas: publications and main conferences (1983-2009) 276 A new species of Vanilla from South America MIGUEL A. SOTO ARENAS† 281 A revision of the mexican and Central American species of Vanilla Plum. ex Mill. with a characterization of their ITS region of the nuclear ribosomal DNA MIGUEL A. SOTO ARENAS† & ROBERT L. DRESSLER 285 A new infrageneric classification and synopsis of the genus Vanilla Plum. ex Mill. (Orchidaceae, Vanillinae) MIGUEL A. SOTO ARENAS† & PHILLIP CRIBB 355 Comparettia sotoana (Orchidaceae: Oncidiinae), a new Ecuadorian species FRANCO PUPULIN & GILBERTO MERINO 399 Confusion in Epidendrum brenesii Schltr., and a new Costa Rican species: Epidendrum sotoanum (Orchidaceae: Laeliinae) ADAM P. KARREMANS & ERIC HÁGSATER 403 Oncidium ornithorhynchum, una especie mal interpretada y un nombre para una vieja especie: Oncidium sotoanum (Orchidaceae) ROLANDO JIMÉNEZ MACHORRO & ERIC HÁGSATER 411 Two new species of Lepanthes from Costa Rica close to L. schizocardia (Orchidaceae: Pleurothallidinae) FRANCO PUPULIN, DIEGO BOGARÍN & CHRISTINA M. SMITH 423 Stanhopeinae Mesoamericanae, V. Las Stanhopea de México GÜNTER GERLACH 431 continues INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL ON ORCHIDOLOGY ii LANKESTERIANA Crossoglossa sotoana (Orchidaceae: Malaxideae), a new species honoring the Mexican botanist, Miguel Ángel Soto Arenas 443 FRANCO PUPULIN & ADAM P. KARREMANS Dos especies nuevas de Pleurothallidinae (Orchidaceae) para México RODOLFO SOLANO GÓMEZ 447 Masdevallia sotoana (Orchidaceae: Pleurothallidinae), a new species from Ecuador HUGO MEDINA & FRANCO PUPULIN 455 New species of Porroglossum (Orchidaceae: Pleurothallidinae) from Ecuador GILBERTO MERINO, ALFONSO DOUCETTE & FRANCO PUPULIN 459 On the identity of Myoxanthus scandens (Orchidaceae: Pleurothallidinae), with a new species FRANCO PUPULIN, DIEGO BOGARÍN & MELANIA FERNÁNDEZ 467 Some new Sobralieae from Costa Rica and Panama ROBERT L. DRESSLER & DIEGO BOGARÍN 475 Lepanthes arenasiana (Pleurothallidinae: Orchidaceae), a new species from Costa Rica DIEGO BOGARÍN & MELANIA FERNÁNDEZ 487 Sotoa, a new genus of Spiranthinae (Orchidaceae) from Mexico and southern United States GERARDO A. SALAZAR & CLAUDIA BALLESTEROS-BARRERA 491 A new species of Odontoglossum (Orchidaceae: Oncidiinae) from Ecuador STIG DALSTRÖM & GILBERTO MERINO 505 A New Ornithidium (Orchidaceae: Maxillariinae) from the Massif de la Hotte of Haiti JAMES D. ACKERMAN & W. MARK WHITTEN 509 Novelties in the orchid flora of Venezuela II --- Cranichideae GUSTAVO A. ROMERO-GONZÁLEZ, GERMÁN CARNEVALI FERNÁNDEZ-CONCHA & PAUL ORMEROD 513 A new species of Lophiaris Raf. (Orchidaceae) from the Pacific Coastal of Mexico RICARDO BALAM NARVÁEZ, WILLIAM CETZAL IX & GERMÁN CARNEVALI FERNÁNDEZ-CONCHA 521 A la tercera se gana: the validation of Benzingia (Orchidaceae: Zygopetalinae) GUSTAVO A. ROMERO-GONZÁLEZ & CALAWAY H. DODSON 526 LANKESTERIANA 9(3), January 2010. © Universidad de Costa Rica, 2010. INDEX iii Epidendrum jalcaënse (Orchidaceae), a new species from Northern Peru MIGUEL CHOCCE, STIG DALSTRÖM, ERIC HÁGSATER & JORGE ARNAIZ 529 Análisis de la selección de sustrato por parte de Dendrophylax lindenii (Lindl.) Benth. & Rolfe (Orchidaceae) en Cabo San Antonio, Península de Guanahacabibes, Pinar del Río, Cuba ERNESTO MÚJICA, JOSEP RAVENTÓS & ELAINE GONZÁLEZ 533 Orquideoflórula de un sector de Serranía de La Cuchilla, municipio Caripe, estado Monagas, Venezuela CARLOS LEOPARDI 541 El redescubrimiento de Mexipedium xerophyticum (Soto Arenas, Salazar & Hágsater) V.A. Albert & M.W. Chase EDUARDO A. PÉREZ-GARCÍA 557 Book Review 564 The Slide collection of Karlheinz Senghas now in “Word Orchid Iconography” SAMUEL SPRUNGER 566 La colección de dibujos de Erich Nelson en “Word Orchid Iconography” SAMUEL SPRUNGER 567 Reviewers of the manuscripts submitted to Lankesteriana, vol. 8—9 568 LANKESTERIANA 9(3), January 2010. © Universidad de Costa Rica, 2010. LANKESTERIANA INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL ON ORCHIDOLOGY Copyright © 2010 Lankester Botanical Garden, University of Costa Rica Effective publication date: January 21, 2010 Layout: Jardín Botánico Lankester. Cover: Vanilla helleri A.D.Hawkes. Drawing by M. López and M.Á. Soto Arenas. Printer: Litografía Ediciones Sanabria S.A. Printed copies: 500 Printed in Costa Rica / Impreso en Costa Rica R Lankesteriana / International Journal on Orchidology No. 1 (2001)-- . -- San José, Costa Rica: Editorial Universidad de Costa Rica, 2001-- v. ISSN-1409-3871 1. Botánica - Publicaciones periódicas, 2. Publicaciones periódicas costarricenses LANKESTERIANA 9(3): 269—272. 2010. MIGUEL ÁNGEL SOTO ARENAS (JULY 12, 1963 – AUGUST 27, 2009) 1 EDUARDO A. PÉREZ GARCÍA2 & ERIC HÁGSATER3 2 Departamento de Ecología y Recursos Naturales, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad Universitaria, Coyoacán, México D.F., [email protected] 3 AMO Herbarium, Instituto Chinoín, Mexico City, [email protected] Miguel Ángel Soto was born in the city of Torreón, time on the genus Lepanthes. He wrote the thesis with Coahuila, on July 12, 1963. In that city he studied Gerardo Salazar, and their work served as the basis elementary and secondary school at the Colegio for the publication of the book: The genus Lepanthes Cervantes (1969-1978) whilst he finished high-school Sw. in Mexico, where they published 32 new species, at the Universidad Autónoma del Noreste (1978- doubling the number of known species for Mexico. 1980). Parallel with his first studies, Miguel Ángel Between finishing his undergraduate studies and became involved in the world of plants. His parents finishing his thesis, Miguel Ángel developed numerous loved plants and he inherited great part of this culture. projects and publications on orchids. During this Living in a semi-arid region allowed him to get to period, Miguel spent his days between the Ecology know closely one of his favorite groups of plants, Laboratory (of the Faculty of Sciences, UNAM) and about which he acquired ample knowledge: the cati the AMO Herbarium since its inauguration (at that and succulents. In spite of living in the desert, Miguel time it was located in La Herradura, in the outskirts Ángel already knew and cultivated his favorite plants, of Mexico City, at Eric Hágsater´s house), and his the orchids. Numerous visitors came to his house, innumerable field trips. He also traveled to the main even journalists from the local communication media, herbaria of the United States and Europe, studying all to see his orchid house. the Mexican material on orchids; these voyages being Later on, Miguel Ángel moved to Mexico City very fruitful in the search of types of numerous species to follow university studies; he majored in Biology native to Mexico. at the Faculty of Sciences /UNAM) from 1982-1987. Miguel taught some undergraduate courses of the When he finished the credits, he began to write his biology, in the Faculty of Sciences, UNAM. Among undergraduate thesis on the orchids of Bonampak, them: Bio-geography on 10 times (from 1983-1993), Chiapas. It is suitable to point out that in those times General Ecology twice (1987-1988), Systematics Bonampak was a very remote place, of difficult (1999), and Natural Resources (2000-2001). He was access and with great extensions of the poorly known also professor of the field biology: “Phytogeography of Lacandon Jungle. From there, Miguel Ángel and Jorge the Montane Cloud Forest of the Sierra Madre in the Meave had to flee in view of the apocalyptic scenes South of Guerrero” (1983-1984) and “Sinecological generated by the eruption of the “El Chichón” (or Analysis of the Montane Cloud Forest of the State Park Chichonal) volcano. Miguel Ángel was a perfectionist of Omiltemi, Guerrero.” (1984-1985). and, maybe because of this, he did not finish that He directed or co-directed around ten students both thesis, although he did publish an article on that results of undergraduate as well as graduate levels. Some of of that sojourn in the heart of the Lacandon Jungle: them received recognitions for the quality of their Soto Arenas, M.A., (1986), Orquídeas de Bonampak, thesis; like Rodolfo Solano Gómez whose thesis “The Chiapas. Orquídea (Mex.) 10(1): 113-132. Miguel Genus Stelis Sw. (Orchidaceae: Pleurothallidinae) in graduated some-time later with a new thesis topic, this México” (E.N.E.P. Iztacala, UNAM, written in 1993 in co-direction with E. Hágsater, AMO Herbarium) 1 Translation by Carlos Ossenbach. earned an Honors Mention in the Undergraduate 270 LANKESTERIANA Thesis Contest of the Botanical Society of Mexico. Botanical Gardens. Similarly, Mariana Hernández Apolinar received From his studies on vanillas the following were First Place in the Undergraduate Thesis Contest published or were left to be published: of the Botanical Society of Mexico with the thesis • Soto Arenas, M.A. (2006). La vainilla: Retos y “Population Dyanmics of Laelia speciosa (HBK) perspectivas de su cultivo. (Vanilla: Challenges Schltr. (Orchidaceae)” (Faculty of Sciences, UNAM, and Perspectives of its cultivation). Biodiversitas written in 1992 with the co-direction of Irene Pisanty). 66: 1-9. In October of 1993 he organized very successfully •