Novelties in the Orchid Flora of Venezuela Vi. Vanilloideae, Pogonieae. Notes on Cleistes tenuis, A Dual Personality Species

Gustavo A. Romero-González; Heber Henao; Carlos Gómez; Germán Carnevali Fernández-Concha

doi:10.3100/025.018.0215

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Gustavo A. Romero-González,^1,2 Heber Henao,³ Carlos Gómez,⁴ Germán Carnevali Fernández-Concha⁵

¹Previous articles in this series were Romero-González and Batista ( ), Romero-González et al. (2010a), Romero-González et al. (2010b), Romero-González and Meneguzzo ( ), and Romero-González et al. ( ).
²Oakes Ames Orchid Herbarium, Harvard University Herbaria, 22 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, U.S.A.; romero@oeb.harvard.edu
³Herbario Julian A. Steyermark (TFAV), Dirección Estadal Ambiental Amazonas, Ministerio del Poder Popular para el Ambiente, Avenida los Lirios, Puerto Ayacucho, estado Amazonas, Venezuela 7101
⁴Calle Urdaneta No. 36, Puerto Ayacucho, Amazonas, Venezuela 7101
⁵Herbarium CICY, Centro de Investigación Científica de Yucatán A. C. (CICY), Calle 43, No. 130, Col. Chuburná de Hidalgo, 97200 Mérida, Yucatán, México; carneval@cicy.mx

Abstract

Notes on Cleistes tenuis are presented, including a detailed description, distribution, and herbarium records. This species is particularly interesting because flowers at full anthesis and preserved in alcohol differ so dramatically from those drawn based on herbarium material and descriptions in the literature, that “two species” easily could be distinguished. Differential drying and shrinking in the labellum, however, account for differences in flowers and in this case are referable to the same species.

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Gustavo A. Romero-González, Heber Henao, Carlos Gómez, and Germán Carnevali Fernández-Concha "Novelties in the Orchid Flora of Venezuela Vi. Vanilloideae, Pogonieae. Notes on Cleistes tenuis, A Dual Personality Species," Harvard Papers in Botany 18(2), 225-235, (1 December 2013). https://doi.org/10.3100/025.018.0215

Published: 1 December 2013

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