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THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL ON ORCHIDOLOGYISSN 1409-3871VOL. 8, No. 2 AUGUST 2008Capsule development, in vitro germination and plantlet acclimatization in Phragmipedium humboldtii , P. longifolium and P. pearceiMELANIA MUOZ & VCTOR M. JI M NEZStanhopeinae Mesoamericanae IV: las Coryanthes de Charles W. PowellGNTER GERLACH & GUSTA V O A. RO M ERO-GONZLEZThe Botanical CabinetRUDOLF JENNYNew species and records of Orchidaceae from Costa RicaDIE G O BO G ARN, ADA M KARRE M ANS & FRANCO PU P ULINBook reviews 23 33 43 75 53 

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LANKESTERIANATHE IN T ERNA TI ONAL JOURNAL ON ORCH I DOLOGY Copyright 2008 Lankester Botanical Garden, University of Costa Rica Effective publication date: August 29, 2008 Layout: Jardn Botnico Lankester. Cover: Plant of Epidendrum zunigae Hgsater, Karremans & Bogarn. Drawing by D. Bogarn. Printer: Litografa Ediciones Sanabria S.A. Printed copies: 500 Printed in Costa Rica / Impreso en Costa RicaR Lankesterian a / The International Journal on Orchidology No. 1 (2001)-. -San Jos, Costa Rica: Editorial Universidad de Costa Rica, 2001-v. ISSN-1409-3871 1. Botnica Publicaciones peridicas, 2. Publicaciones peridicas costarricenses 

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CAPSULE DEVELOPMENT, IN VITRO GERMINATION AND PLANTLET AþccCCLIMATIZATION IN PHRAGMIþpPEDIUM HUMBOLDTII, P. LONGIFOLIUM AND P. þpPEARCEI MELANIA MUOZ1 & VCTOR M. JIþm M NEZ2CIGRAS, Universidad de Costa Rica, 2060 San Pedro, Costa Rica Jardn Botnico Lankester, Universidad de Costa Rica, P.O. Box 1031, 7050 Cartago, Costa Rica1melaniamunozg@yahoo.com; 2victor.jimenez@ucr.ac.crþA ABSTRACT. Capsule development from pollination to full ripeness was evaluated in Phragmipedium longifolium, P. pearcei and P. humboldtii . Besides, seed viability, analyzed in each capsule by means of the tetrazolium chloride staining, was determined. Considering seed viability, germination rate was corrected and expressed as the rate of viable seeds that germinated in the presence and absence of light, on Knudson C and on half-strength Murashige and Skoog culture media. Capsule length remained constant during the evaluation period, while the pollination in P. longifolium P. pearcei and after 32 weeks in P. humboldtii . Seed viability averaged 44.7% in P. longifolium P. pearcei and 34.3% in P. humboldtii light conditions was evident in any of the species. However, a higher proportion of seeds of P. longifolium and P. pearcei germinated earlier on half-strength Murashige and Skoog medium than on Knudson C. Only 2.9% of the viable seeds of P. humboldtii germinated, while approximately 40% germination occurred in the other two species. Initial growth of the embryos was better in the dark on Knudson C medium, compared to the other treatments studied. Further growth of the seedlings took place under light conditions. Developed plants formed roots and were successfully acclimatized in the greenhouse. KEY WORDS: capsule development, in vitro seed germination, pollination, Phragmipedium, terrestrial orchids, tetrazolium chloride, tropical orchidsþIIntroductionþ Slipper orchids belonging to the genus Phragmipedium (Subfamily Cypripedioideae Lindl.) are distributed in Meso and South America (Cox et al. because of alteration and destruction of their habitat and over collection from their natural environment (Arditti 1992, Salazar 1996).þ Use of in vitro protocols has been foreseen as a successful approach for ex-situ conservation and reintroduction of endangered orchids (Stenberg et al. 2003, Sarasan et al. 2006). Plants regenerated from seeds have a broader genetic background than those developed by clonal the goals of a reintroduction program better, in the the reintroduced population to undergo adaptive evolutionary change (Guerrant and Kaye 2007). þ the reintroduction of the orchid species Bletia urbana (Rubluo et al. Ipsea malabarica (Gangaprasad et al. 1999) and Spiranthes brevilabris (Steward et al. 2003). An additional advantage of mass-propagating orchids for conservation purposes is that increasing availability of plants from preferred species with adequate phytosanitary standards and at affordable prices would reduce illegal collection from the wild populations (Ramsay and Dixon 2003, Salazar and Mata 2003).þ Propagation of Phragmipedium through seeds commercial formulations for asymbiotic germination in this genus are available. However, the composition LANKESTERIANA 

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LANKESTERIANAof the culture media has remained elusive to the research on this and related genera is limited to studies on systematics and evolution (e.g., Cox et al. 1997, describing characteristics of seed capsules and their development, are scarce (Arditti and Ghani 2000).þ When proper conditions for germination are to be assessed, it is important to know the viability of the proportion of seeds that do not germinate as a consequence of unfavorable germination conditions from those seeds that are not capable of germinating at used to evaluate seed viability is the tetrazolium (C19H15ClN4) stain. Dehydrogenases, which are active in living tissues, reduce the colorless tetrazolium intensity of the tint could vary from pink to dark red used to test viability of orchid seeds (Lauzer et al. 1994, Vujanovic et al. 2000).þ development of P. humboldtii, P. longifolium , and P. pearcei capsules, to evaluate the seed viability and to establish a method for in vitro germination of mature seeds and for growing and acclimatizing plantlets of these three Phragmipedium species aiming at conservation. þM Materials and methods þ Phragmipedium humboldtii, P. longifolium , and P. pearcei, growing at Lankester Botanical Garden, Universidad de Costa Rica, was conducted using pollen from a different plant. Capsule length, diameter and color were for each capsule to open was also recorded. determined in each ripe capsule using the method of subsamples of each of the two P. humboldtii, one P. longifolium, and four P. pearcei capsules were placed in tetrazolium chloride (1%, pH 6-7), in a water bath (30C) and in dark conditions for 24 h. Subsequently, they were transferred to Petri dishes and the percentage of viable (stained) seeds was determined with aid of a stereomicroscope (model 222279, Nikon). Seeds from the corresponding capsules were used in the germination studies. In vitro germination. — Seeds from open capsules were sterilized in sodium hypochlorite (NaOCl, sterile Albet paper and, after decanting the water of the last rinse, distributed evenly, with a scalpel (blade No. 22) on 20 ml of semisolid culture medium contained in 90 mm-Petri dishes. þ Knudson C (Knudson 1946) and half-strength Murashige and Skoog (1962) mineral salts, both supplemented with 1 mg l-1 thiamine, nicotinic acid and pyridoxine, together with 20 g l-1 sucrose, were compared for seed germination. pH was adjusted to autoclaved at 1.05 kg cm-2 for 25 min.þ Additionally, two light regimes were evaluated of 12 hours (10.9 mol m-2 s-1, Sylvania Supersaver grown at 25C.þ squares, of 1 cm2 each, were drawn in each Petri dish. Areas of the Petri dishes in which individual seeds could be clearly observed using a stereomicroscope of culture. Afterwards, the number of germinating seeds (those in which rupture of the testa occurred Petri dishes were evaluated for every combination of culture medium, light condition and species. Considering seed viability, germination rate was corrected and expressed as the rate of viable seeds that germinated in each treatment. For example, if 50% of the seeds of a capsule with a 50% germination rate, according to the tetrazolium test, germinated on culture medium, it was considered that 100% of the 24LANKESTERIANA 8(2), August 2008. Universidad de Costa Rica, 2008. 

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MUOZ & JIþm M NEZ — Capsule development and germination in Phragmipedium 25LANKESTERIANA 8(2), August 2008. Universidad de Costa Rica, 2008.viable seeds germinated. Besides, the percentage of dead protocorms (those that turned brown after germination) was calculated.þ Protocorms growing in the dark were transferred to the same light conditions of the other treatment after six weeks of culture. Growing protocorms were subcultured every six weeks on the corresponding culture medium. Only actively growing and green protocorms were selected and individually subcultured. When the plantlets reached 1 cm in þ Plants were acclimatized approximately 15 months after culture beginning, when they were 4-5 cm tall and had 2-3 roots around 1 cm in length. For that purpose, all remnants of the gelled culture medium were carefully removed from the roots with running water. One plant was potted per plastic container (3 x 3 x 4 cm), carefully covering the roots completely with the potting mix (peat moss). Plants were placed under mist irrigation (4 s watering every 15 min during the daylight hours). After six months in the greenhouse, the average number of roots and the size of the longest root were annotated. Statistical analysis. — Capsule length and diameter, as well as the effect of culture medium and light conditions on germination for each species were repeated measures). Days needed for full maturity were compared between genotypes with an analysis of differences in the parameters tested (p<0.05). All analyses were conducted using Statistica 6.1 (StatSoft þR Results Blooming was observed in plants of P. longifolium and P. pearcei during the entire year, while P. humboldtii plants bloomed only in May and June. All manualP. humboldtii, nine of P. longifolium and 16 of P. pearcei) developed capsules. Capsule development, from pollination to opening, took longer in P. humboldtii (32.6 weeks), than in P. longifolium and P. pearcei weeks, respectively). þ the capsule size of the three species (Fig 1). Largest capsules were those of P. humboldtii, with an average one week before opening. Capsules of P. longifolium were 60.022.0 mm in length and 5.60.1 mm in diameter, while those of P. pearcei were 42.51.4 mm in length and 4.20.1 mm in diameter at the same moment (Fig. 1). During development, length of the capsules did not vary in any of the species studied weeks after pollination and then remained constant (Fig 1).þ Capsules of P. humboldtii were light green and pubescent (Fig. 2A), while those of P. longifolium were dark purple without pubescence (Fig. 2B); capsules of P. pearcei were green-purple or totally present notable changes in color or pubescence degree during maturation, except for those of P. humboldtii, which turned yellow 4-6 weeks before opening. A great difference in seed viability was observed between P. pearcei and the other species (Fig. 3). Average seed viability in the capsules of P. humboldtii was 34.3%, in P. longifolium 44.7% and in P. pearcei different capsules of a single species was compared, P. pearcei P. humboldtii . FIGURE 1.þ Diameter measured in capsules of P. humboldtii, P. longifolium and P. pearcei during development. 

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LANKESTERIANA 26LANKESTERIANA 8(2), August 2008. Universidad de Costa Rica, 2008. In vitro In order to consider only the viable seeds when calculating germination rate, percentage of seeds that germinated in the culture medium was corrected with the rate of viable seed measured for each capsule, percentage of germination was lower in P. humboldtii (2.9%) than in P. pearcei P. longifolium two (Fig. 3). Developing protocorms that subsequently died were observed only in P. pearcei (Fig. 3).FIGURE 2.þ Development of capsules of P. humboldtii (A, A1), P. longifolium (B , B1) and P. pearcei (C , C1) at pollination day (left) and one week before capsule opening (right). 

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FIGURE 4.þ Germination rate in seeds of P. humboldtii, P. longifolium and P. pearcei along time on Knudson C and half-strength Murashige and Skoog media (MS 50%). FIGURE 3.þ Seed viability, germination rate corrected with the percentage of seed viability of each capsule and death rate of germinated seeds in P. humboldtii, P. longifolium and P. pearcei. Data represent the mean of at least three replicates SD. *Four weeks after sowing. **Eight weeks after sowing.MUOZ & JIþm M NEZ — Capsule development and germination in Phragmipedium 27LANKESTERIANA 8(2), August 2008. Universidad de Costa Rica, 2008. þ Viable seeds of P. longifolium and P. pearcei started Afterwards, the germination rate decreased until, at week four, no additional germinating seeds were observed. On the other hand, germination in P. humboldtii occurred in a very low rate, with only a slight increase during the evaluated period of eight weeks (Fig. 4).þ P. longifolium and P. pearcei germination rate on half-strength Murashige and two species behaved very similarly (Fig. 4), without for unequal N (Spjotvoll/Stoline).þ No effect of the light conditions tested could be observed on seed germination in any of the evaluated among the protocorms cultured on the Knudson C medium, a higher growth rate was observed afterwards in those germinated under dark conditions. under a photoperiod of 12 hours of light after six weeks of culture, and one week later they began to change their color from white to green. By that time, Source of variationþ Testþ Valueþ Fþ Effect dfþ Error dfþ p Interceptþ Wilksþ 0.031021þ 226.4653þ 4þ 29þ 0.000000 Species (A)þ Wilksþ 0.038002þ 29.9406þ 8þ 58þ 0.000000 Culture medium (B)þ Wilksþ 0.451880þ 8.7941þ 4þ 29þ 0.000089 Light conditions (C)þ Wilksþ 0.757612þ 2.3195þ 4þ 29þ 0.080649 ABþ Wilksþ 0.469325þ 3.3328þ 8þ 58þ 0.003338 ACþ Wilksþ 0.421866þ 3.9122þ 8þ 58þ 0.000948 BCþ Wilksþ 0.691800þ 3.2299þ 4þ 29þ 0.026159 ABCþ Wilksþ 0.454910þ 3.4992þ 8þ 58þ 0.002320 þ Phragmipedium species studied in response to culture medium and light conditions. 

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the protocorms of P. pearcei and P. longifolium began leaf of P. humboldtii appeared in the eighth week of P. pearcei and P. longifolium months, and began to develop roots in 3.5 months P. humboldtii developed their leaves in three months too, but began to develop growth rate and better leaf development was observed with Knudson C (data not shown).þ All plants were successfully acclimatized after ca. 15 months of culture in vitro (Fig. 5). After six months in the greenhouse, each plant of P. pearcei had 7.3.5 roots, with the longest one measuring 10.4.7 cm in length. At the same moment, the plants of P. longifolium had 3.6.9 roots, the longest one with 11.7.5 cm.þD Discussionþ registered in this work for P. pearcei, P. longifolium and P. humboldtii (10, 16 and 32 weeks, respectively) were considerably shorter than those measured in other species belonging to the Cypripedioideae subfamily. For example, Paphiopedilum callosum (Arditti 1992). Moreover, it is not unusual to observe differences in this respect between species belonging to the same genus. For example, while capsules of Laelia gouldiana needed 17 weeks to open, those of L. purpurata required 31 weeks. Similarly, in Dendrobium kingianum the time until full ripeness was 20 weeks, while in D. nobile it was 41 weeks (Arditti 1992).þ Capsule development in the three Phragmipedium species studied characterized by an initial growing period of around eight weeks, followed by a maturation period in which the fruit did not increase commonly observed in many fruits. It is characterized by a sigmoid arrangement, in which cell division and elongation initially occur, followed by growth halt the species or genotype, as it was observed in the three Phragmipedium species studied here.LANKESTERIANA 8(2), August 2008. Universidad de Costa Rica, 2008. FIGURE 5.þ Stages during in vitro development of P. pearcei, P. longifolium and P. humboldtii cultured on MS 50%.LANKESTERIANA 

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þ Knowing the time the capsule of a particular orchid species requires until full maturity is very useful to determine proper harvesting time for in vitro germination. Ripe capsules usually have larger amounts of viable seeds than unripe ones. Moreover, collecting seeds after capsule opening usually reduces success during in vitro establishment due to contamination problems and damage caused by the sterilization process, and should be avoided when possible.þ Seed viability measured in Phragmipedium (Fig. 3) is similar to that observed in other terrestrial orchids. For example, the seed viability of Cypripedium acaule varied from 20% to 40% in the capsules studied by Lauzer et al. (1994), and the viability of Calopogon tuberosus was 35% in the study conducted by Kauth et al. (2006). High values, as measured in P. pearcei in this study, have been observed in mature capsules of Ophrys (Kitsaki et al. 2004). Given that seed viability same species (up to 60%, as observed in P. pearcei), it is important to evaluate viability in each capsule. conditions on seed germination based on the actual amount of viable seeds per capsule.þ P. pearcei and P. longifolium germinated faster (2-3 weeks) (Fig. 4) than those of several terrestrial orchids. Henrich et al. showed that 7-12 weeks were necessary for the beginning of germination in 17 terrestrial orchid species. In the study of Shiau et al. (2002), the seeds of Anoectochilus formosanus germinated eight weeks after sowing. On the other hand, there are other terrestrial orchids that germinate faster, as in the case of C. tuberosus, whose seeds germinated one week after sowing and reached the maximum germination in 4-6 weeks (Kauth et al. 2006).þ orchids varies among species. Henrich et al. found 100% germination in Orchis fucssi and Epipactis gigantea, 75% in Goodyera oblongifolia and , 50% in Platanthera stricta and Orchis macula, and 25% in other seven species, Platanthera dilatata , Liparis laeselii and Cypripedium reginae also measured very low germination rates (1%) in Cypripedium calceolus, C. candidum, Plantanthera hiperboria and . However, they did not evaluate the viability of the seeds used; therefore the real percentage of germination of viable seeds could not be determined. þ P. humboldtii had very low germination rate (2.9%) in spite of their relatively high viability (34.3%). However, the large quantity of seeds in each capsule (data not shown) and the low rate of dead protocorms (Fig. 3) allowed the regeneration of enough plants using the protocol developed in this work for conservation and reintroduction of this species. þ It has been considered that both germination and embryo staining (e.g., with tetrazolium chloride) are comparable viability tests. However, although the latter test has been successfully employed with epiphytic tropical orchids and several European and North American terrestrial orchids, there are some reports on inconsistencies in several species, probably attributed to variation in the permeability of the seed coat (reviewed by Vujanovic et al. 2000). In one of these cases, Lauzer et al. (1994) of germination and the percentage of seeds stained with tetrazolium chloride in Cypripedium acaule. pretreatment with NaOCl (40 min with 0.6% w/v NaOCl, as compared to 10 min with the same concentration in our study), a compound that can promote dormancy release in terrestrial orchid seeds (St-Arnaud et al. 1992).þ Numerous orchid species grow better in the Activated carbon has also been used to darken the culture medium and, in this way, improve germination (Arditti and Ernst 1993). In some species, the role of light during germination is not clear; for example, some authors recommend germination of C. tuberosus in the dark and others in light conditions (reviewed by Kauth et al. treatments did not have any effect over germination in the Phragmipedium species studied. However, larger protocorms in the three species were obtained in the dark were white because they do not produce MUOZ & JIþm M NEZ — Capsule development and germination in Phragmipedium 29LANKESTERIANA 8(2), August 2008. Universidad de Costa Rica, 2008. 

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chlorophyll; when they were placed in the light, the chlorophyll synthesis began, and their color changed to green, as observed in other orchids (Arditti & Ernst 1993). þ A considerable number of culture media has been for orchid seed germination, some of them being only C (Knudson 1946) and Murashige and Skoog (1962) mineral salts are probably the most commonly used formulations for asymbiotic germination of orchid seeds. Since the latter one contains high amounts of nitrogen, especially in form of ammonium, dilutions are frequently employed, such as in this investigation. For many orchids, the effect of media on germination and development appears to be genotype dependent. When Knudson C and half-strength Murashige and Skoog media were compared, some genotypes developed better in the former and others in the latter equal response in both media (Roy and Banerjee 2002). to the results obtained with Phragmipedium in this work, half-strength Murashige and Skoog promoted better development of the developing seedlings of hybrid Vanda, as compared to Knudson C (Johnson and Kane 2007). þ Although, to the best of our knowledge, acclimatization of in vitro-generated Phragmipedium be routinely conducted by commercial growers. Very high survival rates during acclimatization, as reported in the present work, indicate that plants generated in vitro were in adequate conditions and could adapt with few problems to the reduced relative humidity in to be the case in the present work, since 100% success was obtained in this step.þ germination and plantlet growth of three Phragmipedium combination of Knudson C medium and culture appropriate to reach a good germination percentage and initial protocorm development. Following the method described in this work it was possible to grow plants of the three Phragmipedium species studied and to achieve their acclimatization in the greenhouse. A great quantity of plants could be produced by in vitro germination, maintaining larger is a useful tool for the conservation of these species. þA ACþk K NOWLEDGþm M ENTS. funded by the Universidad de Costa Rica (project number facilitating the plants used in this study and for additional support. Helpful comments from anonymous reviewers are gratefully acknowledged.þLLITERATURE CITED Agust, M. 2000. Crecimiento y maduracin del fruto. In Fisiologa Vegetal. Mc Graw-Hill, Madrid, Spain, 419433. Arditti, J. 1967. Factors affecting the germination of orchid Arditti, J. 1992. Fundamentals of orchid biology. John Wiley & Sons, U.S.A. 691 p. Arditti, J. & R. Ernst. 1993. Micropropagation of orchids. Arditti, J. & A.K.A. Ghani. 2000. Numerical and physical properties of orchid seeds and their biological Cox, A.V., A.M. Pridgeon, V.A. Albert & M.W. Chase. 1997. Phylogenetics of the slipper orchids (Cypripedioideae, example from the slipper orchids (Cypripedioideae). In C.E.B. Pereira (ed.). Proceedings of 15th World Orchid Conference. Naturalia, France, 265-273. Decruse, S.W., A. Gangaprasad, S. Seeni & V.S. Menon. 2003. Micropropagation and ecorestoration of Vanda spathulata Dressler, R.L. 2003. Orchidaceae. In: Hammel, B.E., Grayum, M.H., Herrera, C. & Zamora, N. (eds.). Manual (Orchidaceae-Zingiberaceae). Missouri Botanical Garden. Saint Louis, Missouri, U.S.A., 1-595.LANKESTERIANA 8(2), August 2008. Universidad de Costa Rica, 2008.30 LANKESTERIANA 

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Gangaprasad, A.N., W.S. Decruse, S. Seeni & S. Menon. 1999. Micropropagation and restoration of the endangered Malabar daffodil orchid Ipsea malabarica. orchid seed germination in vitro of ornamental Vanda Kauth, P.J., W.A. Vendrame & M. Kane. 2006. In vitro seed culture and seedling development of Calopogon tuberosus. Kitsaki, C.K., S. Zygouraki, M. Ziobora & S. Kintzios. 2004. In vitro germination, protocorm formation and plantlet development of mature versus immature seeds from several Ophrys species (Orchidaceae). Plant Cell Knudson, L. 1946. A new nutrient solution for the 214-217. staining and in vitro germination of mature seeds of Cypripedium acaule 204. rapid growth and bioassays with tobacco tissue culture. Ramsay, M.M. & K.W. Dixon. 2003. Propagation science, recovery and translocation of terrestrial orchids. In: Dixon, K.W., S.P. Kell, R.L. Barrett & P.C. Cribb (eds.). Orchid conservation. Natural History Publications, Roy J., & N. Banerjee. 2002. Optimization of in vitro seed germination, protocorm growth and seedling proliferation of Vanda tessellate (Roxb.) Hook Ex G In vitro seed germination and re-introduction of Bletia urbana 73. Salazar, G.A. 1996. Conservation threats. In: Hgsater, E & V. Dumont (eds.). Orchids Status survey and conservation action plan. IUCN. Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, U.K., 6-10. Salazar, V.M. & M. Mata. 2003. Micropropagacin y conservacin de orqudeas mexicanas en el Jardn Sarasan, V., R. Cripps, M.M. Ramsay, C. Atherton, M. McMichen, G. Prendergast & J.K. Rowntree. 2006. Conservation in vitro of threatened plants – progress in the past decade. In Vitro 206-214. Shiau, Y.J., A.P. Sagare, U.C. Chen, S.R. Yang & H.S. Anoectochilus formosanus in vitro culture St-Arnaud, M., D. Lauzer & D. Barab. 1992. In vitro germination and early growth of seedlings of Cypripedium acaule 27. In vitro seed germination and greenhouse cultivation of Encyclia boothiana var. erythronioides, an endangered Florida Steward, S.L., L.W. Zettler & J. Minso. 2003. Symbiotic germination and reintroduction of Spiranthes brevilabris Lindley, an endangered orchid native to 2000. Viability testing of orchid seed and the promotion LANKESTERIANA 8(2), August 2008. Universidad de Costa Rica, 2008.MUOZ & JIþm M NEZ — Capsule development and germination in Phragmipedium 31 

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STANHOPEINAE MEþsSOAþmMERICANAE þIIV: LAþsS CORYANTHES DE þCCHARþlLEþsS W. þPPOþwWEþllLL GNTER GERLACH1 & GUSTAVO þA A. þRROMERO-GONZLEZ21 Botanischer Garten Mnchen-Nymphenburg, Menzinger Str. 65, D-80638 Mnchen, Germany; gerlach@extern.lrz-muenchen.de2 Orchid Herbarium of Oakes Ames, Harvard University Herbaria, 22 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138-2020, U.S.A.; romero@oeb.harvard.eduþA ABSTRACT. The descriptions of Coryanthes hunteriana and Coryanthes powellii described by Schlechter are critically compared. We conclude that the same species was described twice. Because of the loss of the holotypes, the specimens collected by Powell with the same collection number at AMES, K and MO are discussed in detail.þR RESUMEN: Se comparan crticamente las descripciones de Coryanthes hunteriana y Coryanthes powellii ambas descritas por Schlechter. Concluimos que la misma especie se describi dos veces. Como los holotipos se perdieron, se discuten en detalle las muestras existentes del colector Powell en los herbarios AMES, K y MO con el mismo nmero de coleccin de los tipos.þZ ZUSAMMENFASSUNþg G: Die Beschreibungen von Coryanthes hunteriana und Coryanthes powellii , beide beschrieben von Schlechter, werden kritisch verglichen. Wir kamen zu dem Schlu, da ein und dieselbe Art zweimal beschrieben wurde. Wegen dem Verlust der Holotypen werden die existierenden Herbarbelege des Sammlers Powell in den Herbarien AMES, K und MO mit denselben Sammelnummern der Typen eingehend diskutiert. KEY WORDS: Orchidaceae, Stanhopeinae, Coryanthes, Powell, Schlechter, Panam, Costa Rica Coryanthes Hook. es sumamente complicada, y casi imposible de describir con palabras. Cada lector puede hacer interpretaciones diferentes de las descripciones y por consiguiente es de gran importancia acompaarlas de un dibujo y, de ser posible, de fotografas mostrando De las dos especies descritas por Rudolf Schlechter de Panam (C. hunteriana y C. powellii) no existen dibujos, pero s algunas fotografas las cuales, por cierto, al parecer no estuvieron al alcance del autor (al — 1927), quien colect y cultiv orqudeas principalmente de Panam desde principios de siglo pasado hasta su muerte, el proceso de tomar e imprimir fotografas de plantas era difcil y relativamente costoso, y por estas razones hay pocas y su calidad no es buena. Aqu debemos aclarar que el sistema de numeracin de muestras empleado por Powell no se ajusta al que est en uso hoy en da: sus nmeros agrupaban especimenes que de acuerdo a su criterio representaban la misma especie, irrespectivamente de donde y cuando hubieran sido colectados y preservados (mientras que ahora numeramos las colecciones de herbario siguiendo el criterio de gathering of a single species... made by a collector at one time”). En este artculo precisamente tratamos de elucidar las diferentes especies de Coryanthes que Powell distribuy bajo un mismo nmero de coleccin. En algunos casos se puede descartar que algunas de estas muestras puedan ser tipos, porque la fecha que aparece en los rtulos es diferente a la citada en el protlogo. El caso de las muestras sin fecha es ambiguo, aunque en el pasado se han propuesto como lectotipos (Christenson 1991). Aqu continuamos asumiendo que los especmenes sin fecha son tipos, LANKESTERIANA 8(2): 

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GERLACH & þRROMERO-GONZLEZ Las Coryanthes de Powell 35aunque siempre podrn ser cuestionados (K. Gandhi, comunicacin personal, 2008). De las Coryanthes de Powell existen cuatro fotografas. Todas estas fotografas estn montadas en C. misasii G. A. Romero & G. Gerlach, dos representan C. panamensis G. Gerlach y la cuarta tal vez se pueda asignar a una de las dos especies descritas por Schlechter (C. hunteriana, C. powellii). Las muestras tipos de Schlechter, depositadas en el Herbario de Berlin, fueron destruidas durante mayora de sus especies y envi copias a su amigo y colega Oakes Ames (Universidad de Harvard, las Coryanthes de Powell. De manera que solamente nos pueden ayudar a elucidar sus dos especies panameas de Coryanthes las muestras de Powell hoy en da presentes en el Herbario de Orqudeas de los Jardines Reales de Kew (K), en el Herbario de Orqudeas de Oakes Ames en la Universidad de Harvard (AMES) y en el Herbario de Jardn Botnico de Missouri (MO). En estos tres herbarios hemos localizado siete muestras que llevan el nmero 19 de Powell, las que, de acuerdo al criterio de Powell y a la descripcin de Schlechter, deben pertenecer todas a Coryanthes hunteriana. Adems, hay dos muestras de herbario con el nmero 156 de Powell que, siguiendo de nuevo a Powell y a Schlechter, seran asignadas a C. powellii. en Berlin y aclar que hubo un error en la cita del nmero del tipo de esta ltima especie (Schlechter, por 158 de Powell en el protlogo aunque no hay duda que debi haber citado el nmero 156). Enseguida examinamos una lista de las LANKESTERIANA 8(2), August 2008. Universidad de Costa Rica, 2008.Coryanthes hunteriana spalos: “sepalo intermedio plus minusve crispato, ovatosuborbiculari, apiculato, vix 3 cm longo et lato, lateralibus oblique dolabriformibus, a basi usque in apicem 6,5 cm longis, supra basin margine anteriore sublobato-dilatatis ;” ptalos: “petalis oblique lanceolato ligulatis, margine crispatis, c. 3,5 cm longis;” hipoquilo: “labelli hipochilio ovatli-cucullato, apice subacuto, dorso glabro, latere utrinque striguloso-tomentello, 2,5 cm longo, medio fere 1,8 cm alto ,” mesoquilo: “mesochilio canaliculato, nudo, hypochilium, paululo tantum superante,” epiquilo: “epichilio generis cucullato, c. 4 cm longo, lobis lateralibus amplis semiovato-triangularis, obtusis, antice truncatis, intermedio multo minore semiovalis, trilobulata ” Coryanthes powellii spalos: “sepalo intermedio orbiculari, obtuso, c. 2,5 cm longo et lato, lateralibus dolabriformibus acuminatis, antice basin versus sublobato-dilatatis, e basi usque apicem c. 7 cm longis;” ptalos: “petalis oblique ligulatis, obtusiusculis, undulatis 3,5 cm longis;” hipoquilo: “labelli ungue 1,7 cm longo, hypochilio cucullato, obtuse acuminato, dorso glabrato, lateribus linea strigillosa ornato, 2,7 cm longo, medio 1,8 cm alto ,” mesoquilo: “mesochilio canaliculato, nudo, hypochilium, paulo sed manifeste superante ,” epiquilo: “epichilio ovali-cucullato, c. 4 cm longo, lobis lateralibus amplis semiovatis, antice valde obtusis, intermedio multo minore oblongo-triangulo trilobulato ,”Tabla 1. Comparacin de las descripciones originales en latn de Coryanthes hunteriana Schltr. y C. powellii Schltr. 

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36LANKESTERIANA 8(2), August 2008. Universidad de Costa Rica, 2008. þFFIþg G URA 2. Lectotipo de Coryanthes powellii Schltr., K. Reproducido con gentil permiso del Board of Trustees of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.LANKESTERIANA 

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GERLACH & þRROMERO-GONZLEZ Las Coryanthes de Powell 37LANKESTERIANA 8(2), August 2008. Universidad de Costa Rica, 2008.muestras existentes de Coryanthes de Powell con algunos comentarios. como Coryanthes hunteriana Schltr. Lectotypus (Fig. 1), no contradice el protlogo, sin fecha; labelo 5,9 cm alto; 2) AMES 25007: Isolectotypus, no contradice el protlogo, sin fecha; labelo 5,7 cm alto; determinable, la muestra incluye una foto de C. misasii, tiene fecha del 5 de mayo de 1923; Isolectotypus, cinco C. panamensis, dos fotografas (la del C. panamensis), tiene fecha del 15 de noviembre de 1918; labelo 6,3 cm alto; 5) MO 955890: no contradice el protlogo, sin fecha; labelo 5,6 cm alto; Powell 19 (ambas anotaciones sobre rtulo), con 7) AMES 31853: Powell 19 y Oakes Ames 3519; C. panamensis, con fecha de Bajo Powell 156 — como Coryanthes powellii Schltr. 1) K (sin nmero de herbario): Lectotypus (Fig. 2), que la de C. hunteriana de 1920, labelo 5,9 cm alto; ms a AMES 25007 (C. hunteriana), sin fecha; labelo 5,8 cm alto. En este material de herbario se encuentran dos especies de Coryanthes adicionales que fueron descritas Coryanthes hunteriana Schltr., Powell 156 hipoquilo alargado y truncado, el carcter ms distintivo de la especie. Figura 3. Hija de Charles W. Powell (originalmente montada en la muestra AMES 31853) con Coryanthes panamensis. 

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38LANKESTERIANA 8(2), August 2008. Universidad de Costa Rica, 2008. Figura 6. Coryanthes hunteriana Schltr., Panam, Prov. muestra el hipoquilo alargado y truncado, el carcter ms distintivo de la especie. Foto G. Gerlach. Figura 7. Coryanthes hunteriana Schltr., Costa Rica, Prov. Limn, Ro Pacuare, O-18363 (forma rosada que representando el color de tipo de C. horichiana). Foto G. Gerlach. Figura 5. Coryanthes hunteriana el hipoquilo alargado, el carcter ms distintivo de la especie. Foto G. Gerlach.LANKESTERIANA 

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GERLACH & þRROMERO-GONZLEZ Las Coryanthes de Powell 39LANKESTERIANA 8(2), August 2008. Universidad de Costa Rica, 2008. C. misasii G.A. Romero & G. Gerlach (Gerlach & Romero 1990) y C. panamensis G. Gerlach (Gerlach & Schill 1993). Comparando las C. hunteriana y C. powellii, no C. powellii como especie o subespecie. Comparando las descripciones originales (i.e., los protlogos) de las dos especies tampoco se detectan grandes diferencias. Adems, aqu enfatizamos que estas descripciones se basan en caracteres que tienen poco peso para distinguir las especies. La tabla 1 contrasta las descripciones originales en latn. Coryanthes, tanto cultivado como de herbario, hemos las especies (i.e., los caracteres diagnsticos) no estn siempre incluidos en las descripciones. Gerlach (1993) diferenciaba su C. panamensis por el pice del hipoquilo profundamente trapeziforme y sinuado Cum apice hypochilii profundo trapeziformesinuato”). En sus descripciones Schlechter mencion apice subacuto” en C. hunteriana hypochilio cucullato, obtuse acuminato” en C. powellii. En realidad, el hipoquilo como Coryanthes panamensis y C. misasii. Estas dos ltimas especies no presentan el carcter del pice del hipoquilo mencionado por Schlechter (Fig. 8 — 12) y por consiguiente no se pueden confundir con sus conceptos de C. hunteriana o C. powellii. Comparando todo este material con los nmeros mencionados 19 y 156 de Powell, creemos que Schlechter tuvo en sus manos la misma especie pero en dos oportunidades con diferentes nmeros y, sin darse cuenta, la describi dos veces (un error que este Figura 8. Coryanthes panamensis G. Gerlach, Panam, (fotografa del material del holotipo), vista lateral. Foto G. Gerlach. Figura 9. Coryanthes panamensis G. Gerlach, Panam, (fotografa del material del holotipo), vista dorsal. Foto G. Gerlach. 

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LANKESTERIANA 8(2), August 2008. Universidad de Costa Rica, 2008. Figura 10. Coryanthes panamensis G. Gerlach. A. habito, B. Flor en vista lateral, C. Osmoforo, partes del hipoquilo removido, D. Hipoquilo en vista dorsal. Dibujo por H.G. Seeger.LANKESTERIANA 

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GERLACH & þRROMERO-GONZLEZ Las Coryanthes de Powell LANKESTERIANA 8(2), August 2008. Universidad de Costa Rica, 2008.autor cometi en varias oportunidades). Esta hiptesis falta de diferencias importantes en las descripciones de Schlechter de C. hunteriana y C. powellii (Tabla 1). Basndonos en estos argumentos, referimos a C. powellii a la sinonmia de C. hunteriana. dos especies de Schlechter a la sinonima a Coryanthes maculata de sinnimos a C. albertinae H. Karst. y C. splendens Barb. Rodr. Pensamos que el concepto de Coryanthes de Allen era muy amplio y que inclua muchas especies que ahora son aceptadas separadamente por muchos autores, como C. albertinae, restringida a Venezuela, C. maculata, un elemento tpico de C. splendens, un sinnimo de C. speciosa (Hook.) Hook., una especie Debido a la falta de caracteres diagnsticos descritos Coryanthes hunteriana, aqu complementamos su con seguridad en el futuro. Se distingue fcilmente por la forma del pice del hipoquilo: en vista lateral de las especies de la seccin Coryanthes Coryanthes otra seccin) el pice del hipoquilo se ve emarginado y sinuado (por ejemplo en C. panamensis, Fig. 8, 9 y 10) o agudo, pero en ningn caso truncado o obtuso. La interpretacion de C. hunteriana por Gerlach & Coryanthes estuvo errada: la especie ilustrada con este nombre hoy se asigna a C. picturata, la especie ms comn en Panam. Es bastante variable y tiene formas unicolores de color crema o amarillo plido igual que formas punteadas o manchadas. La especie que est ilustrada Figura 11. Fotografa de Coryanthes misasii G. A. Romero & G. Gerlach (originalmente montada en la muestra AMES 25008). Figura 12. C. misasii G. A. Romero & G. Gerlach. Dibujo por K. Brown-Wing. 

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LANKESTERIANA 8(2), August 2008. Universidad de Costa Rica, 2008.LANKESTERIANAen la misma obra con el nombre Coryanthes picturata C. kaiseriana G. Gerlach (Gerlach & Dressler 2003). Para concluir, hoy en da el conocimiento y los datos que tenemos disponibles de Coryanthes claramente son mucho mejores que en el pasado, debido a una mejor infraestructura de informacin y a que se han colectado ms muestras de las Coryanthes descritas por Schlechter de Panam ya han sido colectadas en Costa Rica, aunque las flores presentan una coloracin algo diferente (Fig. 7). Supuestamente por causas de la descripcin pobre en caracteres y por falta de ilustraciones, Jenny (1986) la describi como C. horichiana sin darse cuenta que se trataba de la C. hunteriana.þA AþgG RADECIMIENTOS. Agradecemos a los herbarios y los curadores del Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew en Inglaterra (K), y del Jardn Botnico de Missouri, San Louis, Missouri, E.E.U.U. (MO), por permitirnos estudiar sus colecciones y publicar algunas de sus muestras. Los autores agradecen Arizona (Orchid Society of Arizona, a G.A.R.-G.).þLLITERATURA CITADA (Orchidaceae, third part). Ann. Miss. Bot. Gard. 36(1): 66-69. bombing. Amer. Orchid Soc. Bull. 13: 105-106. Christenson, E.A. 1991. Mesoamerican orchid studies II: Powell’s panamanian orchidaceae. Lindleyana 6(3): Gerlach, G. & Romero, G.A. 1990. Beitrge zur Gattung Coryanthes Hook. VI: Coryanthes gernotii und Coryanthes misasii zwei neue Orchideen aus den Gerlach, G. & Schill, R. 1993. Die Gattung Coryanthes Hook. (Orchidaceae); Eine monographische Bearbeitung unter besonderer Bercksichtigung der Bltenduftstoffe. Gerlach, G. & Dressler, R. 2003. Stanhopeinae Mesoamericanae I. Lankesteriana 8: 23-30. Jenny, R. 1986. Einige Notizen zur Gattung Coryanthes Hooker und eine neue Art: Coryanthes horichiana. Die McNeill, J. [Chairman]. 2006. International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (Vienna Code). A. R. G. Gantner Verlag, Ruggell, Liechtenstein. Schlechter, R. 1922. Beitrge zur Orchideenkunde von Zentralamerika. I. Orchidaceae Powellianae Panamenses. Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 17: 1-95. 

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THE BOTANICAL CABINET RUDOLF JENNYMoosweg 9, 3112 Allmendingen, B Bern, Switzerland RJOrchid@gmx.ch There are a few famous examples of seldom seen botanical periodicals. The orchid plates published in journals like Curtis’s Botanical Magazine and Edwards’s Botanical Register have been reprinted, but many others are known only from the originals locked away in libraries. A good example is Loddiges’ Botanical Cabinet, published in 20 volumes with 2000 plates between 1817 and 1833. The history of this journal and its content must be seen in relation to the Loddiges & Sons Nursery, in Hackney. At the beginning of the 19th century, tropical orchids were almost unknown in Europe, though some illustrations and descriptions were known from expeditions in tropical countries, along with herbarium material collected on such expeditions. Nobody had a clear idea of the richness of forms and species in this family, and tropical orchids were treated more or less as mere curiosities of the plant kingdom. This situation would change dramatically about 1840, when the orchid fever in England started up an orchid collection, and the names of nurseries like Sander, Linden, Low and Veitch, all trying to satisfy the growing market for plants from tropical countries, became famous. establishment in Hackney, London. Joachim Conrad Loddiges was born in 1738, the son of a gardener working for a nobleman in Vristbergholzen near Hannover in Germany. He was trained as a gardener between 1758 and 1761 with Joseph Conrad Wefer in Velzen, near Haarlem in the Netherlands. After in the best tradition of his family as gardener with J. B. Sylvester in Hackney, London. In 1771 Conrad with its stock of customers and suppliers. Conrad was a very keen and intelligent businessman, but his starting capital was so low that that he couldn’t pay Busch for the nursery at one time, but by 1777 he had of a whole series of catalogues as “A catalogue of plants and seeds which are sold by Conrad Loddiges, nursery and seedsman, at Hackney, near London.” We have a handwritten copy by Conrad Loddiges the year 1914, copied from the original of Sir Joseph The editions 2 to 8 are very seldom seen, we know only handwritten copies of those catalogues from the Lindley library. In 1804 there were already 9 orchids mentioned, all of them as Epidendrum, in 1807 there were still 6 Epidendrum listed and in 1811 13 (some of them now known as Cymbidium or Oncidium 1841 and 1844 list a tremendous number of species, in Stanhopea alone, Loddiges offered in 1839 23 in 1844 65 species. Obviously Loddiges was both fascinated by Stanhopea and able to cultivate them rather well. Interestingly enough, some colored illustrations of different Stanhopea species are known that were not published in the Botanical Cabinet; one of them is Stanhopea insignis var. major drawing has a label dated 4 October 1844, and the handwritten remark: “drawn in Loddiges’ garden.” It is quite unclear where these drawings are. Xerox copies showed up in the collection of Herman Sweet, but we have been unable to locate the originals. LANKESTERIANA 

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44LANKESTERIANA 8(2), August 2008. Universidad de Costa Rica, 2008.FIGU R E 1. Joachim Conrad Loddiges, portrait by John Renton, son of the headgardener at Loddiges’ nursery.LANKESTERIANA 

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JENNY 45LANKESTERIANA 8(2), August 2008. Universidad de Costa Rica, 2008.FIGU R E 2. Stanhopea insignis var.major, drawing from Loddiges collection, detailed origin unknown. FIGU R E 3. George Loddiges, portrait by John Renton, son of the headgardener at Loddiges’ nursery, from the collection of the Royal Horticultural Society in London. About the year 1790 Loddiges started to import living plants from other continents, especially from William was born, and in 1786 his second son George Conrad changed the name of the company to Loddiges & Sons. When Conrad Loddiges died at the age of 87 years, on 13 March 1826, he still was not an English citizen, but he owned the best known and most famous company for the importation of exotic plants in Great Britain. Already in 1800 his nursery was the According to some authors, Loddiges & Sons was then the largest nursery in the world (Yearsley, Kew got its famous palm house. The technology that Loddiges used for the building and the steam heating system was revolutionary. To the great surprise of the in the house. In those years, the loss of plants during their transport from outside Europe was dramatic. Loddiges himself mentioned that only 1 plant out of 20 would survive transport. The invention reduced the loss. The Wardian case was invented by Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward, physician and examiner in botany to the Society of Apothecaries in London 20 plants was lost during transport and this change was one of the reasons for the “Orchid fever” in the second half of the 19th century. Loddiges & the tremendous advantage of the Wardian cases, and started to use them immediately after their invention. Loddiges started to import tropical orchids around 1812; in 1826 his catalogue listed 84 species. Conrad and especially his son George saw the tremendous business possibilities with orchids quickly, and consequently they treated orchids as one of the mainstays of their business. Like many other nurseries, Loddiges also worked together with a number of professional collectors who supplied the nursery in Hackney with material, and from time to time also with new species collected all 

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46 LANKESTERIANALANKESTERIANA 8(2), August 2008. Universidad de Costa Rica, 2008.over the world. Hugh Cumming was one of those early collectors, travelling for Loddiges. In 1839, 13 years after Conrad Loddiges died, his son George different species in 25 different genera. In 1844 the last catalogue was published by Loddiges, and it included no less than 1900 species. In those years, the competition from other nurseries became a problem for Loddiges, other nurseries started to employ collecters and to import huge numbers of plants from tropical areas. To make the situation worse, George Loddiges faced problems concerning the property on which the nursery was built, and he was also faced very damaging to the plant stock. When Geoge Loddiges died, in 1846, his son Conrad took over the nursery, together with George’s brother William. William Loddiges died only 5 years later, and so Conrad junior became owner of the nursery. In the ensuing years the nursery had more and more problems with its competitors. The expanding city of London added pressure to the nursery, and the contracts for the property were cancelled. Another very serious problem was air pollution which badly damaged the plants. George Loddiges had built a new greenhouse for orchids, but in 1853 the final decision was made to close the establishment. Loddiges and sons had to clear out everything, together with the large palm house and all other greenhouses. In 1852 Joseph Paxton erected the famous Crystal Palace in London, and sold the complete collection of about 300 palms to largest palm, with a weight of 15 tons, to its final place in the Crystal Palace. In two big auctions, the complete orchid collection was sold in 1856 and 1857. Many plants of the famous collection had been sent to the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew by Conrad junior before the auctions. Conrad Loddiges junior died in 1856, and with him disappeared a great dynasty of nurserymen and a great nursery, the best in its time and the first in England to import plants in great numbers. Loddiges and Sons had the most complete and largest collection of palms in the world, a collection of roses that included all known species and hybrids, a collection of tropical ferns with more than 100 species, and, last but not least, a collection of trees and shrubs of more than 3000 species, of which it was said that it included every single tree and shrub that could be cultivated in England without a greenhouse. Aside from his activites in the nursery, Geoge Loddiges found time Royal Horticultural Society in London and member of the Linnean Society, the Zoological Society and the Microscopy Society. He owned a collection of preserved hummingbirds with more species than all other collections in the world together. The genus Loddigesia few orchids carry the name Loddiges, either for Conrad Loddiges, or George Loddiges, his son: Physosiphon loddigesii Lepanthes lodddigesiana FIGU R E 3. Frontpage of Vol.1 of the Botanical Cabinet from 1817. 

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JENNYLANKESTERIANA 8(2), August 2008. Universidad de Costa Rica, 2008. Octomeria loddigesii Dendrobium loddigesii Cirrhaea loddigesii Acropera loddigesii Cycnoches loddigesii Cattleya loddigesii Already Conrad Loddiges had the idea of presenting his plants to a broader public in an illustrated form, and so George started in 1817 to publish his own series of publications under the name “Botanical Cabinet.” The full title is “The Botanical Cabinet consisting of coloured delineations of plants from all countries with a short account of each, directions for management &c. &c.”, with the added maxim “Even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.” an illustrated catalogue or an illustrated supplement for the catalogues of the nursery. The idea was to publish the best and most interesting plants available in the nursery as coloured illustrations culture and a short description. The Botanical Cabinet was, except for the Curtis’s Botanical Magazine and Edwards’s Botanical Register, one of the very first periodicals of this kind to be published. The editor tried to make clear that his Botanical Cabinet was not intended to be a competitor of Curtis’s Botanical Magazine. George Loddiges contacted John Sims, from 1800 until 1826 the editor of the Botanical Magazine and explained the situation to him. The very short texts accompanying the plates in Botanical Cabinet reflect Loddiges’ effort to avoid any conflict with a well established and scientifically accepted journal like Curtis’s Botanical Magazine.47 FIGU R E 5. Text of the plate of Goodyera pubescens, from the Botanical Cabinet for 1817. FIGU R E 4. Goodyera pubescens series from 1817. 

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48 LANKESTERIANALANKESTERIANA 8(2), August 2008. Universidad de Costa Rica, 2008. The first part was published in May 1817, the last part of volume 20 was distributed in December 1833. Each month one part with ten completely shillings, in parallel a cheaper version with only partially coloured plates was sold for two shillings and six dimes. The twenty volumes included a total number of 2000 plates, 131 of them were orchids, many of them created by George Loddiges, himself. A number of drawings originated from Edward William Cooke and Jane Loddiges. Jane was the daughter of Conrad Loddiges (and sister of William Cooke was a landscape and marine painter, born in 1811 in Pentonville, London. The drawings made by E. W. Cook and Jane Loddiges,together with those from George Loddiges himself, and other involved artists like T. Boys, Miss Rebello, W. Miller, P. Heath and J. P. Heath were engraved by George Cooke, father of E.W.Cooke, printed and then coloured by different artists. George engraver by profession. The originals from E. W. Cooke and Jane Loddiges were offered in 1929 by their grandson to the Bombay Natural History Society. The originals of all drawings are kept today in the collection of the British Museum. In a letter of October 1879, E. W. Cooke stated that all 2000 engraved copper plates were stolen by one of Loddiges’ men from his library in the garden. The exact publication dates of all 2000 plates are published in Stafleu in Taxonomic Literature Goodyera pubescens by Robert Brown. Loddiges received it much earlier from J. and W. Bartram and had it since about 1785 in cultivation. Kew received it from the Duke of Kent in drawing was made by George Loddiges himself. As explained above, only 131 plates of the 2000 were orchids, and it is interesting to see that most of transport from their home to England and rather easy of culture, or, more honestly, hard to kill. Cultivation of orchids during Loddiges’ time was rather different from today’s ideas about cultivation and only really tough plants could survive. This is not the place to write much about plants other than orchids, but I would like to show at least a few examples, Ficus setacea (t. and are very good examples to document the high quality of the drawings. Plate 585 from 1822 takes a very special place in the whole series, it is Cypripedium venustum (Fig. The very first species of the genus Paphiopedilum was described and illustrated by John Sims only two years earlier in Curtis Botanical Magazine as Cypripedium venustum. We don’t know who the artist of this plant was, but under the impression of the strange, beautiful plant and flower, Loddiges wrote: “The view of such pleasing and astonishing FIGU R E 6. Ficus setacea , from Botanical Cabinet , Vol. 12. 

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JENNYLANKESTERIANA 8(2), August 2008. Universidad de Costa Rica, 2008.49FIGU R E 7. from Botanical Cabinet , Vol. 14. 

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50 LANKESTERIANALANKESTERIANA 8(2), August 2008. Universidad de Costa Rica, 2008.FIGU R E 8. Cypripedium venustum from Botanical Cabinet , 1822. 

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JENNYLANKESTERIANA 8(2), August 2008. Universidad de Costa Rica, 2008.FIGU R E 9. Cycnoches Loddigesii from 1833, the last plate in the work. 51 

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52LANKESTERIANA 8(2), August 2008. Universidad de Costa Rica, 2008.LANKESTERIANAproductions of Divine power and Goodness is an endless source of gratitude, wonder and delight. Under the influence of such impressions, who indeed can avoid exclaiming with the inspired penman of old, “O Lord, how manifold are Thy works; in wisdom hast Thou made them all.” orchid: Cycnoches loddigesii named by John Lindley. The plant was collected by John Henry Lance, barrister and at that time commissary judge in Surinam and imported by Loddiges in 1830, it flowered in Loddiges’ culture in 1832 for the first time, the drawing was made by Jane Loddiges and shows the male flowers of the species. Beneath the few words about Cycnoches loddigesii, Loddiges also explained why he would stop the publication of the Botanical Cabinet with Vol. 20; he wrote: “Having been enabled to complete our twentieth volume, and thus to place two thousand plants before the public, our labours are closed; the precarious state of our draughtsman’s health not permitting him to go on any farther.” Though only about 131 of all the plates of the Botanical Cabinet show orchids, the whole work is an invaluable addition to any library, it documents the LITE R ATU R E CITEDGaray, L.A. 1969. Dating of the Botanical Cabinet and of Paxton’s Flower Garden, Taxon 18:709 – 712. Loddiges, G. 1804. Catalogue, handwriting. Loddiges, G. 1807. Catalogue, handwriting. Loddiges, G. 1811. Catalogue, handwriting. Loddiges, G. 1814. A catalogue of plants and seeds Ed.9: 35 – 40. Loddiges, G. 1818. A catalogue of plants Ed.11: 3 – 11. Loddiges, G. 1820. A catalogue of plants and seeds Ed.12: 3 – 13. Loddiges, G. 1823. A catalogue of plants and seeds Ed.13: 3 – 11. Loddiges, G. 1826. A catalogue of plants and seeds Ed.14: 3 – 18. Loddiges, C. 1914. The following lists are compiled.. Loddiges, G. 1839. Orchideae in the collection of Conrad Loddiges and Sons : 1 – 24. Loddiges, G. 1841. Orchideae in the collection of Conrad Loddiges and Sons : 1 – 40. Loddiges, G. 1844. Orchideae in the collection of Conrad Loddiges and Sons :1 – 45. Loddiges, G. 1849. A catalogue of plants and seeds : 1 – 82. Solman, D. 1995. Loddiges of Hackney, the largest hothouse in the world, Hackney Society, John Straker ed. 

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NEW SPECIES AND RECORDS OF ORCHIDACEAE FROM COSTA RICA DIEGO BOGARN1,2,5, þA AþdD AM KARREMANS1,2 & FRANCO PUþp P ULIN1-41 Jardn Botnico Lankester, Universidad de Costa Rica, P. O. Box 1031-7050 Cartago, Costa Rica.2 Centro de Investigacin en Orqudeas de los Andes “ngel Andreetta”, Universidad Alfredo Prez Guerrero, Extensin Gualaceo, Ecuador.3 Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA, USA.4 Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, Sarasota, FL, USA.5 Author for correspondence: diego.bogarin@ucr.ac.crþA AþbB STRACT. We present and illustrate 11 new records of Orchidaceae from Costa Rica, and propose a new combination in Acianthera for Pleurothallis aberrans. Barbosella orbicularis and Myoxanthus speciosus, and illustrated from Costa Rican vouchers. Warmingia margaritacea is reduced to the synonymy of Warmingia zamorana, a species previously known only from Ecuador. A new species, Epidendrum zunigae is described. This species is similar to E. guanacastense and E. isomerum, from which it differs by the narrow, lanceolate long, and the creamy yellow, cordiform, acute, bicallose lip, wich is somewhat convex in natural position. þR RESUMEN: Presentamos e ilustramos 11 nuevos registros de Orchidaceae para Costa Rica, y proponemos una nueva combinacin en Acianthera para Pleurothallis aberrans Barbosella orbicularis y Myoxanthus speciosus, registradas anteriormente con base en registros dudosos, y las dos especies se ilustran con material costarricense. Warmingia margaritacea se reduce a la sinonimia de Warmingia zamorana, una especie previamente conocida solamente del Ecuador. Se describe una nueva especie, Epidendrum zunigae. Esta especie es similar a E. guanacastense y E. isomerum clinandrio blanco, los spalos 11 mm de largo y el labelo cordiforme, agudo, bicalloso y amarillo crema, el cual es algo convexo en posicin natural. KEY WORþd D S: Acianthera aberrans, Costa Rica, Epidendrum zunigae Warmingia zamorana.þ Despite its well established tradition in botanical exploration, which started in 1846 with the visit of Oersted (1846), Costa Rica is still far from having establishment of large and documented collections of living plants at Lankester Botanical Garden, associated with an increasing access to critical documentation, have been the key to improve our understanding of orchid diversity in Costa Rica.þ After the publication of the most recent and complete treatment of the family by Dressler (2003) new species have been added on a regular basis to the country’s inventory. As part of the general activities of botanical exploration, documentation and orchid identification carried out at Lankester Botanical Garden, we present the following new records for the flora of Costa Rica and a new species: 1. þ Acianthera aberrans (Luer) Pupulin & Bogarn, comb. nov. Basionym: Pleurothallis aberrans Luer, Selbyana 2(4): 382. 1978. Type: Panama. Veraguas: epiphytic in tree north of the continental divide, alt. ca. 700 m., above Santa F, 6 September 1976, C. Luer & R.L. Dressler 1628 (holotype, SEL). Aberrantia aberrans (Luer) Luer, Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 95: 253. 2004, nom. inval. Aberrantia 53-74. 2008. LANKESTERIANA 8(2): 

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54LANKESTERIANA 8(2), August 2008. Universidad de Costa Rica, 2008.FIGURE 1. Acianthera aberrans Dissected perianth. E. Lip, frontal view. F. Lip, lateral views. G. Petals, lateral views. H. Pollinarium and anther cap. Drawing by F. Pupulin based on Pupulin et al. 4857 (JBL-spirit). LANKESTERIANA 

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BOGARN et al. New species and records of Orchidaceae 55LANKESTERIANA 8(2), August 2008. Universidad de Costa Rica, 2008. aberrans (Luer) Luer, Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 103: 310. 2005. DISTRIþb B UTION: Costa Rica, Panama and Ecuador.þE ETYMOLOGY: from the Latin aberrans, “away from the usual”, in reference to the unusual characteristics of the species, according to its author. HAþb B ITAT IN þCCOSTA þRRICA: epiphytic in tropical rain forest in the Caribbean lowlands at 275 m of elevation.þC COSTA þRRICAN MATERIAL STUþd D IEþd D: Heredia: Sarapiqu, Horquetas, road to Rara Avis, ca. 6 km, granja La Selva, 10”N 84” W, 275 m, tropical rain forest, secondary vegetation with large remnant trees, along the edge of pastures, 26 July 2003 F. Pupulin 4857, M. Pupulin, C. Pupulin, C. Ossenbach & B. Arias (JBL-spirit!) (Fig. 1, 15-A).þ Although this species has not been yet analyzed by molecular phylogenetic techniques, morphological features suggest that it belongs to the genus Acianthera Scheidw. Luer (1978) stated that it vegetatively resembles to Pleurothallis circumplexa Lindl., P. pacayana Schltr., and P. pantasmi Rchb.f. (all now included in the genus Acianthera) because the inflorescence emerges from the blade of the leaf above the base. Also, he noted that the green, glabrous, gaping flowers in the short raceme resemble those of Pleurothallis cogniauxiana Schltr., P. decipiens Ames & C.Schweinf., and P. verecunda Schltr. (as well as many others), all of them also transferred to the genus Acianthera by several authors (Pridgeon & Chase 2001, Luer 2004). Its bicallose, truncate petals ending into a short apiculum, as well as the long claw of the lip, are unusual features of this species. Luer (2004, 2005) considered these floral details, together with the pair of pointed calli laying near the center of lip (rounded in our specimen) as critical features to segregate Pleurothallis aberrans into the monotypic genus Aberrantia Luer. We consider the monotypic genus Aberrantia, only defined by subtle floral features, congeneric with Acianthera. According to Luer (2003a), the voucher cited by Pupulin (2002a) is from Panama. Here, we cite a Costa Rican voucher for this species. 2. þ Barbosella orbicularis Luer, Selbyana 3 (1, 2): 10. 1976. Type: Panama. Panam: La Eneida, region of Cerro Jefe, epiphytic, alt. 1000 m, 25 December 1967, R. L. Dressler 3285 (holotype, SEL). DISTRIþb B UTION: Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela.þE ETYMOLOGY: from the Latin orbicular, rounded, in allusion to the characteristic shape of the lenticular leaves. HAþb B ITAT IN þCCOSTA þRRICA: Epiphytic in tropical wet forest along the Caribbean watershed of the Central Volcanic range at about 500 m of elevation. þC COSTA þRRICAN MATERIAL STUþd D IEþd D: Limn: Siquirres, Siquirres, Alto Guayacn, ca 500 m, camino de Siquirres hacia Turrialba, terrenos de “Costa Rican Amphibian Research Center”, en rbol viejo de piln (Hyeronima sp.) en potrero, bosque hmedo tropical, colectada por B. Kubicki, 30 septiembre 2005, D. Bogarn 1949 (JBL-spirit) (Fig. 2, 15-B).þ This species had been cited for Costa Rica by Pupulin (2002a) based on a plant cultivated at Lankester Botanical Garden. Unfortunately, the plant B. orbicularis Rica by Luer (2003b), because of the absence of a proper voucher. Fertile material now available leaves no doubt of the occurrence of this species in Costa Rica.þ Among Costa Rican species of Barbosella, B. orbicularis is the most distinctive. It is easily recognized by the creeping habit, the rounded smooth, 3-lobed lip. 3. þ Brenesia lappiformis (A.H.Heller & L.O.Williams) Luer, Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 95: 255. 2004. Pleurothallis lappiformis A.H.Heller & L.O.Williams, Fieldiana, Bot. 31: 42. 1964. Myoxanthus lappiformis (A.H.Heller & L.O.Williams) Luer, Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 15: 38. 1986; Echinella lappiformis (A.H.Heller & L.O.Williams) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase, Lindleyana 16: 253. 2001, nom. illeg.; Echinosepala lappiformis (A.H.Heller & 

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56LANKESTERIANA 8(2), August 2008. Universidad de Costa Rica, 2008.FIGURE 2. Barbosella orbicularis Luer. A. Habit. B. Flower. C. Dissected perianth. D. Column and lip, lateral view. E. Lip. F. Column, frontal view. Drawing by D. Bogarn based on Bogarn 1949 (JBL-spirit). LANKESTERIANA 

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BOGARN et al. New species and records of Orchidaceae 57LANKESTERIANA 8(2), August 2008. Universidad de Costa Rica, 2008. FIGURE 3 . Brenesia lappiformis (A.H.Heller & L.O.Williams) Luer. A. Habit. B. Flower. C. Dissected perianth. D. Column and lip, lateral view. E. Lip. F. Column, frontal view. Drawing by F. Pupulin based on Bogarn 890 (JBL-spirit) 

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58LANKESTERIANA 8(2), August 2008. Universidad de Costa Rica, 2008. FIGURE 4. Comparison of dissected perianths of Epidendrum adnatum (A) and E. maduroi (B). þIILLUSTRATION VOUCþh H ERS: A, Bogarn 2378 (JBL-spirit); B, Bogarn 601 (JBL-spirit). Drawings by A. Karremans.L.O.Williams) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase, Lindleyana 17: 101. 2002. Type: Nicaragua: Chontales: epiphytic at Pistacho Peak near Babilonia Mine, alt. 650 m, July 1962, A. Heller 6620 (holotype, F, not seen). DISTRIþb B UTION: Nicaragua, Costa Rica Venezuela, Ecuador.þE ETYMOLOGY: from the Latin lappiformis, “stoneshaped” or “bur shaped”, in reference to the round and HAþb B ITAT IN þCCOSTA þRRICA: epiphytic in tropical wet forest, premontane belt transition, and premontane wet forest, basal belt transition, along the Caribbean lowlands.þC COSTA þRRICAN MATERIAL STUþd D IEþd D: Heredia: Sarapiqu, Horquetas, C. Ossenbach 265 (JBL-spirit!). Limn: Pococ, Gupiles, carretera Braulio Carrillo, ca. 2 km hacia abajo de la entrada del Telefrico del Bosque Lluvioso, en lomas a orilla de la carretera, 520 m, 101”N 84”W, bosque muy hmedo cados en bosque secundario, 9 julio 2004, D. Bogarn 890 & F. Pupulin (JBL-spirit!) (Fig. 3, 15-C).þ This species is distinguished by the dark purple, hairy flower, with the tip of the narrow dorsal sepal touching the apex of the synsepal. The sepals are rugose-verrucose in the inner surface. A closely related species, Brenesia stonei (Luer) Luer, endemic to Costa Rica, is distinguished by the broad dorsal sepal, free from the synsepal, spathulate, rugose petals and narrowly uncinate lateral lobes of the lip. 4. þ Epidendrum maduroi Hgsater & Garca-Cruz, Icon. Orchid. (Mexico) 3: pl. 352. 1999. Type: Panama: Chiriqu: Norte de Guadalupe, Cerro Punta, Volcn Bar, 2000-3000 m, collected 15 March 1981, pressed 22 February 1983, E. Hgsater & R.L. Dressler 6468 (holotype, AMO, not seen; isotype, MO, not seen). DISTRIþb B UTION: Costa Rica and Panama. Eþp P ONYMY: dedicated to Andrs Maduro, owner of Finca Dracula, Panama, where the collectors were based when collecting the type. HAþb B ITAT IN þCCOSTA þRRICA: epiphytic in premontane LANKESTERIANA 

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BOGARN et al. New species and records of Orchidaceae 59LANKESTERIANA 8(2), August 2008. Universidad de Costa Rica, 2008.and montane wet forests in the Central Cordillera at elevations of 1400-1800 meters.þC COSTA þRRICAN MATERIAL STUþd D IEþd D: Alajuela: San Ramn, Piedades Norte-Zapotal, camino entre el Cerro Azahar hacia Los Bajos y San Antonio de Zapotal, Finca de Don Guillermo, 10.9”N 84.3” W, 1423 secundario, 24 marzo 2005. D. Bogarin 1465, F. Pupulin, A.C. Rodrguez & E. Salas (JBL-spirit!). Heredia: San Rafael, camino del Monte de La Cruz hacia el Refugio de Vida Silvestre Cerro Dantas, a orillas del Ro Nuevo y la Quebrada Cabra, Reserva Forestal Cordillera Volcnica Central, 1800 m, 10”N 84”W, bosque pluvial premontano, D. Bogarin 601, D. Lobo & A. Vargas. (JBL-spirit!) (Fig. 4, Fig.15-D). þ Epidendrum maduroi belongs to the E. albertii group (Hgsater 1999a). Plants of E. maduroi have probably been confused as both E. adnatum and E. lankesteri, described from Costa Rica. Epidendrum maduroi can be distinguished from both species by the wider, 8 mm vs. 4-5 mm, unlobed, widely ovatesubchordate vs. slightly lobed, narrowly ovate lip (Ames 1923, Ames & Schweinfurth 1925). 5. þ Epidendrum orthodontum Hgsater & L.Snchez, Icon. Orchid. 3: t. 361. 1999. Type: Panam: Provincia Chiriqu: Cuesta de Las Palmas, southern slopes of Cerro de La Horqueta, humid forest, 1700-2100 m, 17 March 1911, H. Pittier 3220 (holotype, US-677617, not seen; isotype, AMES22677, photo). DISTRIþb B UTION: Costa Rica and Panama. þE ETYMOLOGY: from the Greek ortho, “erect” and odonto, “tooth” in reference to the erect tooth at the apex of the column. HAþb B ITAT: plants of this species were found growing in montane wet forest at around 2500 m elevation in the Cordillera de Talamanca. þC COSTA þRRICAN MATERIAL: Alajuela: La Palma de San Ramon, 1250 m, 11 octubre 1922, Brenes 337 (CR); La Palma, 24 de octubre 1922, Brenes (7) 337 (AMES, photo; CR); La Palma de San Ramon, 1250 m, 4 de noviembre 1924, Brenes (1114) 256 (NY, not seen). Cartago: El Guarco, San Isidro, Madreselva, Tres de Junio, Carretera Interamericana Sur, km 67, 9.4” N 83.5” W, 2530 m, bosque pluvial montano, en bosque secundario a orillas de la carretera, 20 de enero 2008, A. Karremans 2255. (JBL-Spirit!) (Fig. 5).þ Epidendrum orthodontum is similar to E. nutantirhachis Ames & C. Schweinf., but it can be (sepals 10-12 mm vs. 8-9 mm long; petals 9-10 mm vs. 6-8 mm long), and the erect mid tooth of the column, forming a 90 angle with column (vs. semierect, forming a 45 angle with the column) (Hgsater 1999b). 6.þ Hgsater & Dodson, Icon. Orchid. 2: t. 185. 1993. Type: Ecuador. Pichincha: along river and hillside opposite town of Tandapi at km 55 Santo Domingo to Quito road, 31 December 1986, C. Dodson & T. Dodson 16757 (holotype, RPSC, not seen). DISTRIþb B UTION: Costa Rica, Colombia and Ecuador. This species may well occur in Panama.þE EþpP ONYMY: dedicated to Colonel Paul Scharf, bird watcher and occasional orchid collector in Quito, Ecuador. HAþb B ITAT IN þCCOSTA þRRICA: plants of this species grow Talamanca range, in premontane wet forests at elevations between 700 to 1200 m.þC COSTA þR RICAN MATERIAL STUþd D IEþd D: Cartago: border between Turrialba and Jimnez, La Suiza, Pejivalle, road to Esperanza, on hills close to Quebrada Puente, 9.0”N 83.0”W, 750 m, premontane wet forest, epiphytic in secondary vegetation along the sugar cane plantations, 5 February 2007, F. Pupulin 6500, D. Bogarn & R.L. Dressler (JBL-spirit) (Fig. 6, 15-E). Cartago: Lmite entre Turrialba y Jimnez, La Suiza, Pejivalle, camino a Esperanza, en lomas cerca de la Quebrada Puente, 9.0”N 83.0” W, bosque secundario a la orilla de caaverales, 1 mayo 2008, D. Bogarn 4835, A. Karremans, Y. Kisel & 

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60LANKESTERIANA 8(2), August 2008. Universidad de Costa Rica, 2008.LANKESTERIANA FIGURE 5. Epidendrum orthodontum Column and lip, lateral view. F. Column, frontal and lateral view. Drawing by A. Karremans based on Karremans 2255 (JBL-spirit). 

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BOGARN et al. New species and records of Orchidaceae 61LANKESTERIANA 8(2), August 2008. Universidad de Costa Rica, 2008. FIGURE 6. Comparison of dissected perianths of (A) and E. dentiferum (B). þI ILLUSTRATION VOUCþh H ERS: A, Pupulin 6500 (JBL-spirit); B, Karremans 1485 (JBL-spirit). Drawings by A. Karremans.R. Phillips (JBL-Spirit). Puntarenas: Coto Brus, Las Cruces (entrada a Concepcin), 1212 m, 8.68”N 82.36”O, 29 abril 2006, C. Ossenbach 570 & P. Casasa (JBL-spirit). þ belongs to the Epidendrum difforme group. It is closely related to Epidendrum dentiferum Ames & C. Schweinf., but the latter has and lateral sepals forming a 90 angle with the dorsal petals, and sepals forming a 120 angle in ). It is also similar to E. gregorii which has shorter and wider sepals and petals and a bilobed lip, with each lobe obliquely notched on the distal margin. 7. þ Epidendrum stellidifforme Hgsater & Dodson, Icon. Orchid. (Mexico) 4: t. 487. 2001. Type: Ecuador: Carchi: Maldonado, 1500 m, 2 October 1981, L. Werling & S. Leth-Nissen 147 (holotype, AMES, photo; isotype, QCA, not seen). DISTRIþb B UTION: Costa Rica, Colombia and Ecuador. This species may well occur in Panama.þE ETYMOLOGY: from the Latin stella, “star”, in reference difforme for the group to which the species belongs. HAþb B ITAT IN þCCOSTA þRRICA: epiphytic in tropical wet forest, premontane belt transition, on the eastern slope of the Miravalles Volcano at 650-700 m of elevation.þC COSTA þRRICAN MATERIAL STUþd D IEþd D: Alajuela: Upala, Bijagua, Zapote, desvo a la izquierda despus del puente sobre Ro Zapote en sentido Bijagua-Pueblo Nuevo, ladera este del Volcn Miravalles, siguiendo la margen del Ro Zapote, 10.4”N 85.9”W, 650-700 m, bosque muy hmedo tropical, transicin a premontano, 2006, D. Bogarn 2814, F. Pupulin, A. Rambelli & J. Rambelli (CR, JBL-Spirit) (Fig. 7, 15-F).þ Epidendrum stellidifforme belongs to Epidendrum difforme Jacq. group. It is similar to Epidendrum hunterianum Schltr., from which it can be distinguished by the larger (16 x 16 mm vs. 14 x 14 mm), shallowly three lobed, mucronate lip, the acute-acuminate sepals and petals, and the narrower (2.5-3 mm vs. 3.5-4 mm), narrowly elliptic (vs. elliptic) petals. The type species differs from the Costa Rican material in the acuminate, leaves (Hgsater 2001). The Colombian Epidendrum killipii Hgsater & L. Snchez, is very similar to this species, and may prove to be the same. According to the protologue, the ovary of E. killipii but the drawing of the type shows both a cylindric, 

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LANKESTERIANA 8(2), August 2008. Universidad de Costa Rica, 2008. FIGURE 7 . Epidendrum stellidifforme Hgsater & Dodson. A. Habit. B. Flower. C. Dissected perianth. D. Column and lip, lateral view. E. Column, frontal and lateral view. F. Pollinarium and anther cap. Drawing by A. Karremans based on Bogarn 2814 (JBL-spirit).62 LANKESTERIANA 

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the name E. killipii has priority. 8.þ Epidendrum zunigae Hgsater, Karremans & Bogarn, sp. nov. TYPE: þC COSTA þRRICA. Puntarenas: Osa, Sierpe, Mogos, alrededores de Quebrada Porvenir, ca. 3 km norte de Alto de Mogos, 8.5”N 83.6” W, 126 m, bosque muy hmedo 2006, D. Bogarn 2680, J. Ziga & Curso de Botnica Forestal-UCR (holotype, JBL-spirit) (Fig. 8, 15-G).þ Species Epidendro guanacastensi Ames & C. acuto bicalloso, apice columnae purpurea, clinandrio albo differt.þ Plant epiphytic, monopodial, pendent, branching herb. Roots basal, from thin. Stems branched near the base of the main stem. Leaves numerous, distributed throughout the stems; sheath tubular, minutely rugose; blades linear-lanceolate, acuminate, short mucronate, coriaceous, slightly carinate, those on the main stem ca. 12, similar in size. apical, produced from the main stem, and presumably form the secondary branches; peduncle reduced. Floral bracts longer than the ovary, amplexicaul, imbricating, ovate-oblong, rounded. Flowers 3, distichous, greenish, the lip creamy yellow, column green at base, the apical half purple, clinandrium-hood white. Ovary terete, smooth, thin. Sepals partly spreading, narrowly elliptic, acute, 5-veined, margin slightly revolute, entire. Petals partly spreading, linear-elliptic, acute, 5-veined, margin entire, spreading. Lip entire, cordiform, acute, spreading, slightly convex in natural position, margin entire, spreading; bicallose, the calli thickened at the base and ending in low keels, with a prominent median keel stretching from the base of the lip to the apex. Column somewhat arching upwards above the middle, short, internally provided with a pair of lateral thickenings at the height of the rostellum, and forming a narrow channel; clinandrium hood prominent, funnelof the column, slit. Anther obovate, 4-celled. DISTRIþb B UTION: Known only from the lowlands in southern Costa Rica.þE EþpP ONYMY: named in honor of Jos Daniel Ziga Delgado, research assistant at Jardn Botnico Lankester, who participated in the type collection. He HAþb B ITAT ANþd D ECOLOGY: epiphytic in secondary tropical wet forest at 100-150 m of elevation in the southern cultivation in November.þ Epidendrum zunigae belongs to the Epidendrum ramosum group, which is characterized by the monopodial, branching stems, the spike-like, distichous Epidendrum isomerum subgroup, which has long, pendent plants, very narrow, acute leaves, Epidendrum zunigae is recognized by the narrow, lanceolate leaves, creamy yellow lip, the apical half of the column marked with purple, with a white clinandrium, and the cordiform, acute lip, somewhat convex in natural position. It resembles E. isomerum Schltr., which has 3-11 x 0.1mm long, the lip rhombic-triangular, acute, with a “V” shaped callus. It is also similar to E. guanacastense Ames & C. Schweinf., which has thicker stems, and a zigzag cordiform, rounded lip, and the callus “Y” shaped. 9.þ Lockhartia chocensis Kraenzl. in H.G.A.Engler Type: Colombia: Choco, Triana s.n. (holotype, W). DISTRIþb B UTION: Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela and Peru.þE ETYMOLOGY: named from the Choco region in Colombia, the place from where the type specimen was collected. HAþb B ITAT IN þCCOSTA þRRICA: epiphytic in secondary forest in tropical wet forest premontane belt transition in the Caribbean watershed of Tilarn range.BOGARN et al. New species and records of Orchidaceae 63LANKESTERIANA 8(2), August 2008. Universidad de Costa Rica, 2008. 

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FIGURE 8 . Epidendrum zunigae Hgsater, Karremans & Bogarn. A. Habit. B. Flower in natural position. C. Dissected perianth. D. Column and lip, lateral view. E. Lip. F. Column, lateral and frontal view. Drawn by D. Bogarn from the holotype.LANKESTERIANA 8(2), August 2008. Universidad de Costa Rica, 2008.64 LANKESTERIANA 

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FIGURE 9 . Lockhartia chocensis Kraenzl. A. Habit. B. Flower in natural position. C. Dissected perianth. D. Column and lip, lateral view. E. Column, frontal view. F. Pollinarium and anther cap. Drawing by D. Bogarn based on Bogarn 2352 (JBL-spirit). BOGARN et al. New species and records of Orchidaceae 65LANKESTERIANA 8(2), August 2008. Universidad de Costa Rica, 2008. 

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FIGURE 10. Maxillaria bolivarensis C.Schweinf. A. Habit. B. Flower in natural position. C. Dissected perianth. D. Column and lip, lateral view. E. Column, lateral and frontal view. F. Pollinarium and anther cap. Drawing by D. Bogarn based on Whitten 2030 (JBL-spirit). LANKESTERIANA 8(2), August 2008. Universidad de Costa Rica, 2008.66 LANKESTERIANA 

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LANKESTERIANA 8(2), August 2008. Universidad de Costa Rica, 2008.þCCOSTA þRRICAN MATERIAL STUþd D IEþd D: Alajuela: Upala, Aguas Claras de Buenos Aires, Hotel Termales Azules, camino por la ladera del Volcn Rincn de La Vieja, hasta las cataratas, 700-2000 m, 6 abril 2004, A. Karremans 271 (JBL-spirit!). Upala, Bijagua, Zapote, desvo a la izquierda despus del puente sobre Ro Zapote en sentido BijaguaPueblo Nuevo, ladera este del Volcn Miravalles, siguiendo la margen del Ro Zapote, 10.4”N 85.9”W, 650-700 m, bosque muy hmedo tropical, transicin a premontano, epfitas en bordes de potreros y rboles aislados, 1 febrero 2006, D. Bogarn 2352, R.L. Dressler, R. Gmez & A. Rojas (JBL-spirit!) (Fig. 9, 15-H).þ This species is similar to Lockhartia micrantha Rchb.f., but the lip is six-lobulate with a pair of narrow basal lobules folding upward, two acute lobules placed at the middle, and two apical, rounded lobules. The callus is made up by two parallel keels running to the middle and convergent at apex. The illustration shown in Garay and Dunsterville (1966), L. chocensis, is consistent with the specimens studied from Costa Rica. Lockhartia lankesteri Ames, based on a collection by C.H. Lankester from Aguas Zarcas, San Carlos, in the Atlantic lowlands of Costa Rica, has been reduced into the synonymy of L. micrantha. With the discovery of L. chocensis populations in Upala, close to the San Carlos region, it is now probable that L. lankesteri is a later name for L. chocensis. The drawing of the lip from the holotype of L. lankesteri at AMES (AMES101030) is somewhat schematic however it shows two small lobes at the middle of the lip. A careful the status of L. lankesteri. 10.þ Maxillaria bolivarensis C.Schweinf., Bot. Mus. Bolvar, Region of Urimn, forest mesa of Apradatepu, at 950 m, August 13, 1953, L. Bernardi 780 (holotype, MER, not seen; isotype, AMES-69561, photo). DISTRIþb B UTION: Costa Rica, Venezuela, Ecuador and Peru. The Costa Rican records are not so far away from Nicaraguan boundary. This species may well occur in Nicaragua, Panama and Colombia.þE ETYMOLOGY: from the State of Bolvar, Venezuela where the type specimen was collected. HAþb B ITAT IN þCCOSTA þRRICA: epiphytic in tropical wet forest along the Caribbean lowlands.þC COSTA þRRICAN MATERIAL STUþd D IEþd D: Heredia: Sarapiqu, Horquetas, above Horquetas, Terra Folia Reserve, near Rara Avis, wet premontane forest, epiphytic, 10’ 14” N 84 01’ 36” W, 500 m, 21 July 2003, M. Whitten 2030 & M. Blanco (JBL-Spirit!); Sarapiqu, Magsasay, ribera del Ro Peje, 180 m, 31 diciembre 2005, C. Ossenbach 507 & J.F. Casasa (JBL-Spirit!) (Fig. 10, 15-I).þ This species is easily recognized by the inconspicuous pseudobulbs, the linear-oblong, coriaceous leaves less than 1.5 cm wide, and the smooth clinandrium and anther cap. In Costa Rica, Maxillaria confusa Ames & C.Schweinf. is M. bolivarensis, however its conspicuous pseudobulbs, broader subcoriaceous leaves (up to 3 cm wide), fringed clinandrium and ciliate anther cap are useful features to recognize this species. 11.þ Myoxanthus speciosus (Luer) Luer, Selbyana 7: 51. 1982. Pleurothallis speciosa Luer, Selbyana 3: 392. 1977. Type: Panama: Chiriqu: epiphytic in cloud forest above Guadalupe, ca. 2000 m, 13 September 1976, C. Luer & H. Butcher 1371 (holotype, SEL). DISTRIþb B UTION: Costa Rica and Panama.þE ETYMOLOGY: from the Latin speciosus, “splendid”, in HAþb B ITAT IN þCCOSTA þRRICA: epiphytic in lower montane rain forest at 2450 m of elevation in Talamanca range.þC COSTA þRRICAN MATERIAL STUþd D IEþd D: San Jos-Cartago: Dota-El Guarco, Jardn, entre La Chonta y Can, km 56 carretera Interamericana, Finca Santa Mara de La Selva, 9.5”N 83.3” W, 2450 m, epfita en bosque pluvial montano bajo, en rboles de potreros principalmente sobre Drymis winteri, Alnus acuminata y Quercus sp, 19 febrero 2005, D. Bogarn 1420, C. Ossenbach & F. Pupulin (JBLspirit!) (Fig. 11).BOGARN et al. New species and records of Orchidaceae 67 

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þ Pupulin (2002a) and Luer (2003) cited this species for Costa Rica based on a plant cultivated in Switzerland and collected in “Cordillera de Talamanca, Sierra Hills near Corazn de Jess, alt. 2100 m” in Puntarenas Province (Jenny P-25, MO). Luer (2003c) stated that its origin is doubtful in all the collection details including the country. However, material collected near Cerro de La Muerte, along the Panamerican Highway in Costa Rica. 12.þ Scaphyglottis robusta B.R.Adams, Phytologia 64: 253. 1988. Type: Panama. Panama: El Llano-CartiTupile road, 10-12 km N of Inter-Am. Highway, 9 January 1975, Luteyn & Wilbur 4679 (holotype, DUKE, not seen). DISTRIþb B UTION: Costa Rica and Panama.þE ETYMOLOGY: from the Latin robustus, “stout” in reference to the robust and strong appearance of this species compared with other members of the genus. HAþb B ITAT IN þCCOSTA þRRICA: epiphytic in tropical wet premontane forest to 1150 m of elevation in the Caribbean watershed of the Talamanca range.þC COSTA þRRICAN MATERIAL STUþd D IEþd D: Cartago: Jimnez, Julio Carmona, La Suiza de Turrialba, 22 marzo 2006, D. Bogarn 2662 (CR, JBL-Spirit) (Fig. 12, 15-J). Turrialba, Pacayitas, calle a La Suiza, ca. km 8, 9.9”N 83.6”W, 1150 m, bosque hmedo premontano, 4 de marzo 2007, A. Karremans 1661 & D. Karremans (JBL-Spirit).þ This species is similar in habit to Scaphyglottis modesta (Rchb.f.) Schltr.; however, it can be distinguished by the larger habit, the yellow-greenish stripes in S. modesta. Antillean plants have dull, yellow-greenish to brownish-green), the spathulate lip (vs. 3-lobed) and the prominent wings of the column. Scaphyglottis anneliesae Brieger, a nomen nudum published without a description or any indication of the type, has been attributed to Costa Rica. Adams (1993) studied Brieger’s accompanying photographs and suggested that it is referable to S. robusta. However in describing S. robusta, he only cited Panamanian material. Here, we report the presence of S. robusta in Costa Rican based on two collections. 13.þ Sobralia bouchei Ames & C.Schweinf., Schedul. Orchid. 10: 4. 1930. Type: Panama. March-April 1930, 2200 feet, terrestrial and epiphytic, A.M. Bouch s.n. (holotype, AMES-35595, photo). DISTRIþb B UTION: Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama.þE EþpP ONYMY: in honor of Adrien M. Bouch, who collected the type specimen. HAþb B ITAT IN þC COSTA þR RICA: epiphytic or terrestrial in FIGURE 11 . Myoxanthus speciosus (Luer) Luer. A. Flower in natural position. B. Dissected perianth. C. Column and lip. Drawing by F. Pupulin based on Bogarn 1420 (JBL-spirit). LANKESTERIANA 8(2), August 2008. Universidad de Costa Rica, 2008.68 LANKESTERIANA 

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FIGURE 12. Scaphyglottis robusta B.R. Adams. A. Habit. B. Flower in natural position. C. Dissected perianth. D. Column and lip, lateral view. E. Column, lateral and frontal view. Drawing by D. Bogarn based on Bogarn 2662 (JBL-spirit). LANKESTERIANA 8(2), August 2008. Universidad de Costa Rica, 2008.BOGARN et al. New species and records of Orchidaceae 69 

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FIGURE 13. Warmingia zamorana Dodson. A-B. Habit. C. Flower. D. Dissected perianth. E. Column and lip, three-quarter view. F. Column and lip, lateral view. G. Column, ventral view. In E-G the pollinarium is bending toward the stigma, whereas the viscidium is still in place. Drawing by F. Pupulin based on Karremans 452 from Costa Rica (JBL-spirit). LANKESTERIANA 8(2), August 2008. Universidad de Costa Rica, 2008.70 LANKESTERIANA 

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FIGURE 8 . Warmingia zamorana Dodson. A. Habit. B. Flower in natural position. C. Dissected perianth. D. Column and lip, lateral view. E. Column, lateral and ventral view. F. Pollinarium. Drawing by F. Pupulin based on Medina s.n. from Ecuador (CIOA-spirit). LANKESTERIANA 8(2), August 2008. Universidad de Costa Rica, 2008.BOGARN et al. New species and records of Orchidaceae 71 

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roadcuts in tropical wet premontane forest to 900 m of elevation in the Caribbean watershed of the Talamanca range.þC COSTA þRRICAN MATERIAL STUþd D IEþd D: Cartago: Turrialba, Tayutic, carretera entre Tayutic y Jicotea, Platanillo, laderas del Ro Platanillo, siguiendo la margen del ro, 9.46”N 83.29”W, 878 m, bosque muy hmedo premontano, 1 abril 2008, D. Bogarn 4201, A. Russell & R. Samuel (JBL-Spirit).þ This species is easily recognized by the pink crisped golden-yellow keels. The leaves are bright green and smooth. Plants from Panama and cultivated at Lankester Botanical Garden produce fully opened This condition has been also observed in Nicaraguan material (Dressler, pers. comm. 2008). Sobralia triandra A.H.Heller & A.D.Hawkes described from S. bouchei. 14.þ Warmingia zamorana Dodson, Icon. Pl. Trop., II, 6: t. 599. 1989. Type: Ecuador. Zamora-Chinchipe: Zamora, 1000 m, August 1968, C. H. Dodson 3842 (holotype: SEL). Warmingia margaritacea B. Johans., Lindleyana 7: 194. 1992, syn. nov. Type: Costa Rica. [Cartago]: Turrialba, C.A.T.I.E., epiphytic on Hibiscus sp. forming hedge, 600 m, 19 November 1988, B. Johansen & M. Srensen 138 (holotype: C, not seen). DISTRIþb B UTION: Costa Rica and Ecuador.þE ETYMOLOGY: named from the city of Zamora in southern Ecuador, the locality of the type specimen. HAþb B ITAT IN þCCOSTA þRRICA: epiphytic in premontane wet forest on garden trees and bushes in Turrialba region.MATERIAL STUþd D IEþd D. þC COSTA þRRICA. Cartago: Turrialba, Tropical de Investigacin y Enseanza (CATIE) en pendientes, 3 noviembre 2003, A. Karremans 452. (JBL-spirit) (Fig 13, 15-K). Turrialba, CATIE. Frente de Hibiscus sp., al lado de un tubo de agua. 9” N 83” W, 600 m, 4 noviembre 2005, A. Karremans 1123 (JBL-spirit). þE ECUAþd D OR. ZamoraChinchipe a lo largo del Ro Zamora entre 600 a 800 m, H. Medina s.n. (CIOA). Morona-Santiago: cerca de Patuca, H. Medina s.n. (CIOA-spirit) (Fig. 15-L). þ This species was in 1992 by Johansen as a new species named W. margaritacea. The plant was collected at CATIE campus in Turrialba, Costa Rica, growing in Hibiscus sp. fences (Johansen 1992). After its description, the species had been long known only by the type collection (Atwood 1999, Dressler 2003). Fifteen years later, in November 2003, botanical exploration carried out at CATIE revealed more populations of this species growing in Hibiscus sp. (Pupulin 2004, 2005). þ With a careful analysis of the type specimen of W. zamorana as well as of Ecuadorian material cultivated from the Zamora-Chinchipe region, we conclude that the characters used to separate W. margaritacea from W. zamorana are inconsistent, and both species should be W. margaritacea can be distinguished from W. zamorana by the coriaceous, lanceolate, subfalcate leaves, the However, this set of features were also observed in living specimens of W. zamorana from Ecuador. W. margaritacea are pure ivory and pearly appearance, contrasting W. zamorana as having a yellow lip callus (Dodson 1989), but the callus of all the examined Costa Rican records is bright yellow in color (a photograph is given in Pupulin 2005). The serrate petals and the three-lobed lip with a bilobate yellow callus were also observed in both Ecuadorian specimens from Zamora and Costa Rican material collected at CATIE. Although we have still not found a wild population of this species outside of CATIE, some plants have been collected growing in Cupressus lusitanicus trees. þ Warmingia zamorana has not been recorded the two countries in the middle of its distribution. Nevertheless, that disjunction may be attributed to undercollection of these small and easily overlooked epiphytes. It is remarkable that similar examples LANKESTERIANA 8(2), August 2008. Universidad de Costa Rica, 2008.72 LANKESTERIANA 

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FIGURE 15. Pictures of: A. Acianthera aberrans. B. Barbosella orbicularis. C. Brenesia lappiformis. D. Epidendrum maduroi. E. Epidendrum stellidifforme. F. . G. Epidendrum zunigae. H. Lockhartia chocoensis. I. Maxillaria bolivarensis. J. Scaphyglottis robusta. K. Warmingia zamorana (Costa Rica). L. Wamingia zamorana (Ecuador). LANKESTERIANA 8(2), August 2008. Universidad de Costa Rica, 2008.BOGARN et al. New species and records of Orchidaceae 73 

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and Ecuador were documented in the case of Ornithocephalus montealegrae Pupulin, originally described from the Turrialba region in Costa Rica (Pupulin 2002b) and recorded in Ecuador by Dodson (2003), and in Lockhartia chocoensis and Maxillaria bolivarensis, discussed in this paper.þA ACþk K NOWLEþd D GEMENTS. We want to thank Robert L. Dressler and Eric Hgsater for their invaluable support and their useful comments on the paper. Hugo Medina and Jos services of Ministerio del Ambiente y Energa de Costa Rica (MINAE) and its Sistema Nacional de reas de N. 1281 under which wild species treated in this study were collected, and the Ministerio del Ambiente of Ecuador, for the permits issued for the managing of the ex-situ orchid collections at Gualaceo and El Pangui, Ecuador. To the Vicerrectora de Investigacin of the University of Costa Rica for providing support under the project N. 814-A7Mesoamericana”.þLLITERATURE þCCITEþd DAdams, B.R. 1993. A taxonomic revision of the genus Scaphyglottis Poepp. & Endl. (OrchidaceaeEpidendroideae). Ph.D. dissertation, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. America. Schedul. Orch. 4 : 45. Ames, O & C. Schweinfurth. 1925. New or noteworthy species of orchids from the American Tropics. Schedul. Orch. 8 : 41. Atwood, J.T. 1999. Warmingia Rchb.f. Pages 172-173 in: Burger, W. (Ed.). Flora Costaricensis. Family #39 Orchidaceae: Tribe Maxillarieae: Subtribes Maxillariinae and Oncidiinae. Field., Bot., n.s. 40. Dodson, C.H. 1989. Warmingia zamorana. Icon. Pl. Trop., II, 6: t. 599. Dodson, C.H. 2003. Native Ecuadorian Orchids. Volume IV: Oncidium-Restrepiopsis. Dodson Trust, Sarasota, Florida. USA. Dressler, R.L. 2003. Orchidaceae. Pages 1-595 in: Hammel, B.E., M.H. Grayum, C. Herrera and N. Zamora (Eds.). Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica. Vol.3. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 93. Garay, L. A. & G.C.K. Dunsterville. 1966. Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated. Volume IV. Andre Deutsch Limited, London. England. Hgsater, E. 1999a. Epidendrum maduroi. Icon. Orchid. (Mexico). 3: 352. Hgsater, E. 1999b. Epidendrum orthodontum. Icon. Orchid. (Mexico). 3: 361. Hgsater, E. 1999c. Epidendrum killipii . Icon. Orchid. (Mexico). 3: 342. Hgsater, E. 2001. Epidendrum stellidifforme. Icon. Orchid. (Mexico). 4: 487 Johansen. B. 1992. Warmingia margaritacea sp. nov. (Orchidaceae) from Costa Rica and a review of the genus. Lindleyana 7(4):194-198. Luer, C.A. 1978. Icones Pleurothallidinarum (Orchidaceae). Miscellaneous new species in the Pleurothallidinae. Selbyana 2(4): 367-390. Luer, C.A. 2003a. Pleurothallis . Pages 386-452 in: Hammel, B.E., M.H. Grayum, C. Herrera and N. Zamora (Eds.). Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica. Vol.3. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 93. Luer, C.A. 2003b. Barbosella. Pages 22-24 in: Hammel, B.E., M.H. Grayum, C. Herrera and N. Zamora (Eds.). Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica. Vol.3. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 93. Luer, C.A. 2003c. Myoxanthus. Pages 339-342 in: Hammel, B.E., M.H. Grayum, C. Herrera and N. Zamora (Eds.). Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica. Vol.3. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 93. Luer, C.A. 2004. Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXVI: Pleurothallis subgenus Acianthera and three allied subgenera; A Second Century of New Species of Stelis of Ecuador; Epibator, Ophidion, Zootrophion. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 95: 1-265. Luer, C.A. 2005. Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXVII: Dryadella and Acronia sect. Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae (Orchidaceae). Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 103: 1-311. Oersted, A.S. 1863. L’Amrique Centrale: recherches sur sa Luno Par F.S. Muhle. Copenhague. Pridgeon, A.M. & M.W. Chase. 2001. A phylogenetic Lindleyana 16: 235-271. Pupulin, F. 2002a. Catalogo revisado y anotado de las Orchidaceae de Costa Rica. Lankesteriana 4:1-88. Pupulin, F. 2002b. Exploring for orchids: Ornithocephalus montealegrae is described from Costa Rica. Orchids, Mag. Amer. Orchid Soc. 71(11): 1016-1019. Pupulin, F. 2004. El regreso de la Warmingia. Epidendrum 23:3-5. Pupulin, F. 2005. The Pearl Warmingia: a rare Oncidioid enters cultivation. Orchids, Mag. Amer. Orchid Soc. 74(4): 282-285.LANKESTERIANA 8(2), August 2008. Universidad de Costa Rica, 2008.74 LANKESTERIANA 

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BOOK REVIEWS Hgsater, E. & M. Soto (eds.). 2008. Icones Orchidacearum. Fascicle 10. Orchids of Mexico. Part 4 . Herbario AMO, Mxico D.F., Mxico. Pp. i-xxxvi, plates 1001100. Published on June 11, 2008. Under the experienced editorship by Eric Hgsater and Miguel Soto, the Herbario AMO delivers the fourth part of “Orchids of Mexico”, fascicle 10 of the series Icones Orchidacearum . The volume is dedicated to the late Federico Halbinger Mosig (1925), a short biography of whom is provided by Hgsater and Soto, together with checklists of the taxa named after him and those described or transferred by Halbinger, as well as a complete bibliography of the great Mexican orchidologist. In line with the last issues of the Icones Orchidacearum , particular attention is given to the much needed effort to neotypify the species originally and Galeotti (the last case made more problematic by the absence of type specimens for several taxa). Unlike the previous releases of the series, the new fascicle eliminates the short English descriptions to provide more information in the Spanish version and to augment the space devoted to the very ample chapters on specimen citation and bibliographic references. Even so, in some cases, the length of the texts obliged the editors to include part of the specimen citations and the references in 21 additional pages of appendices to list all the vouchers known to the authors The emphasis of the volume is on the genera Barkeria (5 spp.), Isochilus (4 spp.), Prosthechea (11 spp.), and Rhynchostele (9 spp.), but the treatment also includes interesting taxa as the Mexican endemic Lockhartia galeottiana Ophrys imbricata Sess & Moc. (1890)], Cuitlauzina pendula La Llave & Lex., and Homalopetalum pumilio some well-known species important in horticulture (i.e., Guarianthe skinneri , Rhynchostele spp.). Six new taxa (i.e., Bletia villae Soto Arenas, Encyclia halbingeriana Hgsater & Soto Arenas, Isochilus oaxanus Maxillaria chimalpana Rhynchostele cervantesii subsp. halbingeriana Soto Arenas & Hgsater, and R. maculata subsp. oestlundiana fo. perotensis new names, combinations and/or status changes Camaridium punctostriatum Lockhartia galeottiana , Myoxanthus congestus (A. Oestlundia ligulata (La llave & Lex.) Soto Arenas, Prosthechea squalida (La llave & Lex.) Soto Arenas, Rhyncholaelia digbyana subsp. (Ames) Soto Arenas, Rhynchostele maculata subsp. oestlundiana (L.O. fo. oestlundiana , and Stelis platystylis Solano & Soto Arenas] are proposed in the work, making it a necessary reference for any serious library on Neotropical botany. Consistently with the other volumes of the series, the fourth part 4 of “Orchids of Mexico” adopts the analysis of molecular data, even when the authors express their doubts about some of the actual generic circumscriptions. The framework of the taxonomic system is basically that suggested by the ongoing series of Genera Orchidacearum , and the editors’ decision to strictly follow this system is an appreciable attempt to maintain a common (and hopefully standing) “language” in orchid nomenclature. With a very few exceptions, of standard quality, most of the botanical illustrations included in Orchids of Mexico, part 4, are outstanding for the information they convey and the artistic interpretation of the illustrations) has seemingly reached its full maturity; worthy of note are also the composite plates by are among the most informative in contemporarly botanical production. Franco Pupulin 75-78. 2008. LANKESTERIANA 8(2): 

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Oakeley, H.F. 2008. Lycaste , Ida and Anguloa . The essential guide . Published by the author, Bekenham, United Kingdom, and printed by Cambrian Printers, Aberystwyth, U.K. Large 30.5 x 30.5 cm volume, pp. (v) 445, 1400 color photogaphs. 1 st edition published on May, 2008. 76 LANKESTERIANA 8(2), August 2008. Universidad de Costa Rica, 2008. LANKESTERIANA A complete, gorgeously illustrated, superbly printed and perfectly bound large book represents the longwaited and ultimate work on Lycaste , Ida , and Anguloa in these orchid groups of increasing horticultural importance. to Lycaste (Oakeley 1993), the author claims for completeness: “If is not in here it has not been species, subspecies (varieties in the actual treatment) and natural hybrid in Lycaste and Ida (both treated under the former genus in the old guide) are monograph. When split apart into two genera, the subspecies and 8 natural hybrids of Lycaste , and 22 species of Ida . In the present work Lycaste includes 31 species (5 of which are described as new and 4 (23 new) and one (new) subvariety, and 14 natural hybrids (7 of which described in this treatment). Ida has 39 species, 7 of which described in the text, 11 varieties (5 new) and 3 natural hybrids, all newly proposed in the book. A natural intergeneric hybrid between Lycaste and Ida is also included: x Lycida mathiasae . The treatment of Anguloa does not differ by the author (Oakeley 1999a, 1999b, 1999c, 1999d, 1999e) and, according to Oakeley’s guide, the genus comprises today 9 species, 5 varieties, and 4 natural hybrids, one of them ( Anguloa x speciosa ) described in this volume. For each of the nearly 150 species, natural hybrids and varieties included in the volume, the text provides a full description, etymology, historical notes, taxonomic discussion, distribution and voucher citations, and bibliography. Of these, the chapters on taxonomic history and bibliographic references are particularly worthy, amply documented and with frequent, direct references to the original sources, while the citation of herbarium specimens is generally of limited use due the relative paucity of the consulted herbaria. Species and hybrids are listed alphabetically within each genus, following a criterion that makes easier to the phylogenetic relationships among closely related (albeit alphabetically distant) species. The taxonomic treatments are preceded by chapters on the history of the discovery and the introduction of the three genera, keys to the species of Anguloa , Ida , and Lycaste . An the species of these three genera, including accounts on their pollination and the preparation of herbarium specimens. Dr. Oakeley is the holder of the National Plant Collection for Anguloa , Ida and Lycaste in the United Kingdom, and his more than 50 years long acquaintance with the growing secrets of these plants is well evident in this chapter. Two large Appendices and errors”, and the author enlists over 300 invalid, misapplied, and synonymous names that plagued the complex taxonomic history of the involved genera and have been used at some time but have to be considered incorrect or redundant. The second Appendix is an “Annotated bibliography” with almost one thousand bibliographical citations (including indications of the presence of plates/pictures/photographs), and references to relevant websites and travel accounts involving Anguloa , Ida , and Lycaste in their habitats. The taxonomic novelties include the following new species: Lycaste angelae Oakeley (with var. alba Oakeley and var. rubra Oakeley), L. crystallina Wubben ex Oakeley, L. fuscina Oakeley, L. occulta Oakeley and its var. alba Oakeley, L. panamensis Fowlie ex Oakeley, Ida angustipetala Oakeley, I. castanea H. James ex Oakeley, I. ejirii Oakeley, I. jimenezii Oakeley, I. munaensis Oakeley, I. priscilae I. Portilla ex Oakeley, and I. shigerui Oakeley. Lycaste plana ‘Measuresiana’ B.S. Williams, L. macrophylla subsp. puntarenasensis Fowlie, L. macrophylla var. viridescens Oakeley, and L. macrophylla subsp. xanthocheila while L. plana Lindl. is sunk under a variety of L. macrophylla . 

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The whole book is splendidly illustrated. Large, crisp photographs of outstanding quality by the author himself show one or (more commonly) several views special attention to taxonomic relevant features, and the plant habit, in many cases accompanied by shots of the plants in-situ. For most of the older taxa, original type illustrations and/or critical historic illustrations are perfectly reproduced to help the reader understand original species concepts. Whenever possible, the book even includes portraits of the dignitaries honored with the species names. For each of the species, the author also presents an impressive series of macroand microphotographs showing anatomical and morphological features that are relevant to identify the species. These normally include views of the dissected lip (adaxial and lateral), the callus, the column, and the pollinarium, but other features (like the shape and ornament of the pseudoulbs) are also presented when they are considered taxonomically relevant. As the author admits in his preliminary notes, the use of types throughout the work is “more loose than Nomenclature”, and this unfortunately happens in several opportunities. Lycaste panamensis Fowlie ex Oakeley is indicated in the text as a stat. nov. , but no reference is made to any basionym (in fact, Lycaste macrophylla subsp. panamensis Fowlie is a nomen nudum ). In several cases (i.e. L. dowiana , L. lasioglossa ), the author “chooses” a holotype, while in other cases he designates a lectotype when a holotype or isotype ostensibly is in existence (i.e., L. candida , L. tricolor ). Doubts may be expressed about the applicability of the name Lycaste candida Lindl. This name was just cited by Lindley as a provisional name, but in the same text the author himself considered it (erroneously) a synonym of L. leucantha . Thus, by the name L. candida was not accepted by its own author, and was thus invalid. The next available name should be, in this case, L. brevispatha Klotsch 1871, regarded by Oaekeley as a synonym of L. candida . the available materials. Thus, for example, Lycaste bradeorum plant reportedly from San Isidro del General, in distribution of this species, which is limited to the northern, dry areas of the Guanacaste province and its Nicaraguan neighbors. At the Ames Orchid Herbarium of the Harvard University is kept a copy of the original Schlechter’s drawings of L. bradeorum , which could have been selected as a more appropriate lectotype. Another taxonomic point is the apparent frequence of natural hybrids in some groups of species, which L. candida (probably an invalid name) and L. brevispatha morphology. Now, Oakeley maintains L. candida for populations with markedly three-lobed lip, and creates L. angelae for plants with broadly diamond-shaped, obscurely lobed lip (his photographs of L. angelae var. rubra lip), resolving all the intermediate forms through the description of a supposed new natural hybrid, L. x daniloi , which is stated to be “much commoner than either species”. All in all, Oakeley’s book is an extraordinary work, based on a long, deep and intimate knowledge of the groups under study, and a fundamental piece to understand the diversity and complexity of the involved species. There are no doubts that this splendid monographs will stand for a long time as the essential reference of future students of these three genera. Franco Pupulin a LITERATURE CITED Oakeley, H.F. 1993. Lycaste species, the essential guide. Vigo Press, London. Oakeley, H.F. 1999a. A revision of the genus Anguloa (in Japanese, with type descriptions in Latin and picture captions in English). All Japan Orch. Soc. Orch. 38: 17. Anguloa . Orchidee (Hamburg) 50(1): 21; 50(3): 34; 50(4): 51. Anguloa of the genus Anguloa. Orquideologa 159. Anguloa . Orchideen 4: 63. Oakeley, H.F. 1999e. Anguloa , the species, the hybrids, and a checklist of Angulocastes. Orch. Digest 63(4) Suppl.: 1. Book reviews 77 LANKESTERIANA 8(2), August 2008. Universidad de Costa Rica, 2008. 

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