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A new natural hybrid, Bletia × ekmanii (Orchidaceae) , from Cuba

2011; Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin; Volume: 41; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3372/wi.41.41112

1868-6397

Maité Serguera Niño, Margarita Sánchez Losada,

Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions

Serguera Niño M. & Sánchez Losada M.: A new natural hybrid, Bletia ×ekmanii (Orchidaceae), from Cuba [Novitiae florae cubensis 35]. — Willdenowia 41: 107–111. — Online ISSN 1868-6397; © 2011 BGBM Berlin-Dahlem. doi:10.3372/wi.41.41112 (available via http//dx.doi.org/)The natural hybrid Bletia ×ekmanii (B. patula × B. purpurea) is described and illustrated. Hybrid plants have a semihypogeous subglobose corm, incurved petals enclosing the column, flowers of intermediate size between those of the parental species, a trilobed lip of almost the same size as the lateral sepals with obtuse lateral lobes. Flowers of the hybrid resemble those of B. purpurea but are larger and with a patent lip as in B. patula. The hybrid was found along the roadside from Palenque to Bernardo town, Guantánamo Province, eastern Cuba.