Abstract: In preparation for the forthcoming orchid accounts of the Flore des Mascareignes lectotypifications are made for Angraecum cadetii, A. cornigerum, A. corrugatum, A. costatum, A. eburneum, A. mauritianum, A, patens, A. pingue, A. tenuifolium, Benthamia erinace

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Abstract: The reasons for excess names in microfloral orchids such as Oberonia Lindl. can be traced to poor scholarship (e.g., failure to review the literature, ignoring expert advice), typological thinking, and erroneous assumption of microendemism. Some extraordinari

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Abstract: The fourth chapter of the series about Rudolf Schlechter’s South-American orchids again presents abridged biographical information about the botanists and orchid collectors that formed part of Schlechter’s South-American network and who travelled and worked i

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Abstract: The fifth chapter of the series about Rudolf Schlechter’s South-American orchids introduces us to those botanists and orchid collectors who travelled and worked in Ecuador and Peru and supplied Schlechter with many of the new orchid species he described. As i

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Abstract: Trisetella pachycaudata, a new species in the subtribe Pleurothallidinae, was discovered in the Zamora Chinchipe province of southeast Ecuador, and it is described here. Trisetella pachycaudata is compared with the most similar species (and others with which

Resumen: Trisetella pachycaudata, una nueva especie de la subtribu Pleurothallidinae, ha sido descubierta en la provincia de Zamora Chinchipe al sureste de Ecuador y es descrita aquí. Trisetella pachycaudata es comparada con las especies más similares (y con las que s

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