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Letters to the Editor. Rebuttal to Sauleda
(2019)
In the Orchids issue for May of
this year, Rubén Sauleda and Claudia
Elena Gutiérrez commented on a few
points of a book review I wrote for the
second volume of Orchids, a Colombian
Treasure, by Pedro Ortiz Valdivieso ...
Orchids of Paradise
(2018)
WHERE IT ALL BEGAN The Italian explorer and navigator Cristoforo Colombo
(Christopher Columbus, c.1451–1506)
discovered the paradise during his fourth
voyage across the Atlantic Ocean, when
searching for a passage west ...
Phragmipedium humboldtii (Warsz.) J.T. Atwood & Dressler: on the correct name for the Central American long-petaled Phragmipedium; again
(2016)
I was quite convinced that the
complicated taxonomic history of
the Central American long-petaled
Phragmipedium, which has been
misunderstood for over a century and
caused a lot of uncertainties among both
professional ...
Pleurothallis hawkingii and Pleurothallis vide-vallis (Orchidaceae; Epidendroideae), two new species from Cordillera de Guanacaste in Costa Rica
(2018)
Two new species of Pleurothallis are described from the Cordillera de Guanacaste in northern Costa rica. both novelties belong to Pleurothallis sect. Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae, among which they can be recognised by their ...
Dracontia, the little-known dragon orchids
(2011-09)
The dragon orchids (genus Dracontia) represent a small group of mostly Central American species in the Pleurothallidinae. Their relatively large, uniquely shaped and diversely ornate flowers set them apart from their close ...
Epiphytes in Honduras: a geographical analysis of the vascular epiphyte flora and its floristic affinities to other Central American countries
(2016)
In this paper, we compared epiphyte inventories from Honduras to recent published floristic inventories from other Central American countries including Costa Rica, Panama, Nicaragua and Belize. Previous estimates of vascular ...
Pollination systems in Pogonieae (Orchidaceae: Vanilloideae): A hypothesis of evolution among reward and rewardless flowers
(ELSEVIER GMBH, URBAN & FISCHER VERLAGJENA, 2013-08-02)
The tribe Pogonieae of Vanilloideae (Orchidaceae) consists of six genera, including Pogoniopsis, a mycoheterotrophic taxon with morphological characteristics distinct from the remaining of the tribe. A hypothesis about the ...