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Provedor de dados: | Acta Amazonica
País: | Brazil
Título: | A new species of Dichaea (Orchidaceae) for northern Brazil
Autores: | Valsko,Jefferson José; Krahl,Amauri Herbert; Holanda,Ana Sofia Sousa de; Zartman,Charles Eugene.
Data: | 2014-09-01
Ano: | 2014
Palavras-chave: | Taxonomy; Amazonas; Epiphyte; Dense ombrophilous forest.
Resumo: | Dichaea is the largest genus of the subtribe Zygopetalinae and holds it's the highest species diversity in South America. Therefore, this study aims to describe a new species of Dichaea, which occurs in northern Brazil, Dichaea bragae Valsko, Krahl &amp;amp; Holanda. The new species was collected in the north of Manaus in an area of ombrophilous forest and flowered when cultivated. The epithet honors Dr. Pedro Ivo Soares Braga (in memoriam), orchidologist who conducted several studies in the Brazilian Amazon. This new species show a affinity with Dichaea tenuis C. Schweinf., however it is differentiated both vegetatively and on labellum morphology.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0044-59672014000300014
Editor: | Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia
Relação: | 10.1590/1809-4392201305162
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Acta Amazonica  v.44 n.3 2014
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess