Myoxanthus antennifer Luer & Hirtz (1992: 18‒19)

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 : 230

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

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5484773

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scientific name

Myoxanthus antennifer Luer & Hirtz (1992: 18‒19)
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3. Myoxanthus antennifer Luer & Hirtz (1992: 18‒19) View in CoL . (Fig. 12D)

TYPE:— ECUADOR. Zamora-Chinchipe: Cordillera del Condor, epiphytic in forest east of Los Encuentros , 1650 m, 21 Jan 1989, Luer et al. 14035 (holotype: MO!).

Distribution: — Ecuador and Peru.

Notes:— This species is frequently misidentified as M. fimbriatus (and vice versa), but M. antennifer has nonprolific ramicauls (vs. prolific ones), a lip with a conspicuous longitudinal pair of apical keels and conspicuously dentate midlobe margins (vs. lip with a longitudinal pair of low keels in the middle and a midlobe minutely dentate at the apex, frequently apiculate).

MO

Missouri Botanical Garden

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