Myoxanthus uxorius (Luer) Luer (1982a: 51)

Rojas-Alvarado, Gustavo, Blanco, Mario A. & Karremans, Adam P., 2021, A taxonomic synopsis and morphological characterization of Myoxanthus (Orchidaceae: Pleurothallidinae), Phytotaxa 507 (3), pp. 211-258 : 250

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/phytotaxa.507.3.1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5484851

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scientific name

Myoxanthus uxorius (Luer) Luer (1982a: 51)
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50. Myoxanthus uxorius (Luer) Luer (1982a: 51) View in CoL . (Fig. 18J)

Basionym: Pleurothallis uxoria Luer (1979: 186) View in CoL .

TYPE:— ECUADOR. Zamora-Chinchipe: epiphytic in cloud forest east of the pass between Loja and Zamora , 2500 m, 11 Feb 1978, Luer, Luer & Portilla 2533 (holotype: SEL!).

Distribution: — Colombia and Ecuador.

Notes:— Myoxanthus uxorius is caespitose with narrow leaves generally with revolute margins and yellowish glabrous flowers that are similar to M. ruschii from Brazil, but M. uxorius is distinguished by its unmottled sepals and petals vs. darkly mottled, column foot without calli vs. with a pair of thick calli near the apex, yellow lip suffused with brown, obovate arcuate, convex above the middle, the disc with a pair of smooth, rounded calli bellow the middle vs. reddish to brownish, obovate, with angled elevated margin near the middle and revolute slightly verrucose margins above the middle.

SEL

Marie Selby Botanical Gardens

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Liliopsida

Order

Asparagales

Family

Orchidaceae

Genus

Myoxanthus

Loc

Myoxanthus uxorius (Luer) Luer (1982a: 51)

Rojas-Alvarado, Gustavo, Blanco, Mario A. & Karremans, Adam P. 2021
2021
Loc

Pleurothallis uxoria

Luer 1979: 186
1979
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