<documentid="F11B2FBCCC439FB4C87B5071BABEACF1"ID-DOI="10.11646/phytotaxa.373.2.1"ID-ISSN="1179-3163"ID-Zenodo-Dep="13727438"IM.bibliography_approvedBy="felipe"IM.illustrations_approvedBy="felipe"IM.materialsCitations_approvedBy="felipe"IM.metadata_approvedBy="felipe"IM.taxonomicNames_approvedBy="felipe"IM.treatmentCitations_approvedBy="felipe"IM.treatments_approvedBy="felipe"checkinTime="1725678382357"checkinUser="felipe"docAuthor="Descourvières, Pascal, Farminhão, João N. M., Dubuisson, Vincent Droissart Jean-Yves, Simo-Droissart, Murielle & Stévart, Tariq"docDate="2018"docId="F771D043FFE84260EDEEF9ECA70CFD58"docLanguage="en"docName="phytotaxa.373.2.1.pdf"docOrigin="Phytotaxa 373 (2)"docSource="http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.373.2.1"docStyle="DocumentStyle:96748F8F1B6C902996E134952A3A36B9.13:Phytotaxa.2014-.journal_article"docStyleId="96748F8F1B6C902996E134952A3A36B9"docStyleName="Phytotaxa.2014-.journal_article"docStyleVersion="13"docTitle="Kylicanthe Descourvieres, Stevart & Droissart 2018, gen. nov."docType="treatment"docVersion="2"lastPageNumber="103"masterDocId="0B48A83BFFEA4264ED66FFB8A427FFE9"masterDocTitle="A new genus of angraecoid orchids (Orchidaceae: Angraecinae) with highly distinctive pollinaria morphology, including three new species from tropical West and Central Africa"masterLastPageNumber="120"masterPageNumber="99"pageNumber="101"updateTime="1725690890329"updateUser="ExternalLinkService"zenodo-license-figures="UNSPECIFIED"zenodo-license-treatments="UNSPECIFIED">
<mods:titleid="B3B44F9529474372FAF7720E19A10BC2">A new genus of angraecoid orchids (Orchidaceae: Angraecinae) with highly distinctive pollinaria morphology, including three new species from tropical West and Central Africa</mods:title>
<mods:namePartid="08846DCEF4D5CAA8FB4D5168BB7AE54A">Farminhão, João N. M.</mods:namePart>
<mods:affiliationid="9B7184A7340AAD1D87D25F16CCA09412">Herbarium et Bibliothèque de Botanique africaine, Université Libre de Bruxelles, campus de la Plaine, boulevard du Triomphe, CP 265, B- 1050, Brussels, Belgium</mods:affiliation>
<mods:affiliationid="269B10AD1E912869414D6D136334179F">Plant Systematics and Ecology Laboratory, Higher Teachers’ Training College, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon</mods:affiliation>
<mods:affiliationid="4A90A5D9FE5BE0E8E26E30E7807FD62B">Herbarium et Bibliothèque de Botanique africaine, Université Libre de Bruxelles, campus de la Plaine, boulevard du Triomphe, CP 265, B- 1050, Brussels, Belgium & Missouri Botanical Garden, Africa & Madagascar Department, PO Box 299, St. Louis, Missouri 63166 - 0299, USA</mods:affiliation>
<taxonomicNameid="B8D81AD6FFE84266EDEEF9ECA6B0F986"ID-CoL="8WGY9"authority="Descourvieres, Stevart & Droissart"authorityName="Descourvieres, Stevart & Droissart"authorityYear="2018"box="[136,663,1620,1647]"class="Liliopsida"family="Orchidaceae"genus="Kylicanthe"kingdom="Plantae"order="Asparagales"pageId="2"pageNumber="101"phylum="Tracheophyta"rank="genus"status="gen. nov.">
<figureCitationid="E7E37DD0FFE84266EE72F9EEA77FF986"box="[788,856,1622,1647]"captionStart="FIGURE 2"captionStartId="3.[136,229,1814,1835]"captionTargetBox="[203,1385,190,1789]"captionTargetId="figure-14@3.[203,1385,190,1789]"captionTargetPageId="3"captionText="FIGURE 2. Overview of Kylicanthe diversity. A. Kylicanthe arcuata, plants growing as twig epiphytes in Mt. Etindé (Cameroon) and detail of the flowers. B. Kylicanthe perezverae, seed capsules of a plant grown at the Nimba shadehouse (Guinea). C. Kylicanthe liae, habit and detail of a flower showing a prominent orange viscidium, in cultivation at Huye orchid garden of the University of Koblenz- Landau guest house (Rwanda). D. Kylicanthe bueae, habit of a plant grown at Yaoundé shadehouse (Cameroon) and detail of a flower. E. Kylicanthe quintasii, detail of inflorescence of a plant from São Tomé Island. F. Kylicanthe rohrii, detail of inflorescence of a plant from Tanzania. G. Kylicanthe cornuata, detail of flowers of a plant grown at Yaoundé shadehouse (Cameroon). Photographs by: A., D. and G. Vincent Droissart; B. Ehoarn Bidault; C. Eberhard Fischer; E. Tariq Stévart; F. W. Bachmann, facilitated by the World Orchid Iconography of the Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz (Botanical Institute, University of Basel, Switzerland)."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13727444"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13727444/files/figure.png"pageId="2"pageNumber="101">Fig. 2</figureCitation>
<bibRefCitationid="1B491CA4FFE84266EC1EF9C4A670F978"author="Schlechter, R."box="[376,599,1660,1681]"pageId="2"pageNumber="101"pagination="142 - 165"refId="ref17865"refString="Schlechter, R. (1906) Orchidaceae africanae IV. In: Engler, A. (Ed.) Beitrage zur Flora von Afrika XXIX. Botanische Jahrbucher fur Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 38: 142 - 165."type="journal article"year="1906">Schlechter (1906: 159)</bibRefCitation>
) in the structure of the rostellum and pollinarium but differs in the large and cup-shaped stigmatic cavity with large margins more or less winged; the pollinarium consists of a single calceiform viscidium and 1 or 2 stipes with fringed margins; it has distinctive ventricose fruits.
long. Leaves imbricate, distichous, generally no more than ten, slightly conduplicate, oblong, linear to obovate, sometimes slightly falcate, with entire margins, bilobed at apex, generally unequally bilobed, 13–160 ×
; stigmatic cavity cup-shaped, margins more or less winged, 3 veins generally visible; rostellum triangular and bifid; pollinia 2, spherical; stipes 2 spatulate, completely separate or more or less connate along their inner margins, or 1 obcordate, margins clearly erose to fringed,
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, plants growing as twig epiphytes in Mt. Etindé (Cameroon) and detail of the flowers. B.
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, habit and detail of a flower showing a prominent orange viscidium, in cultivation at Huye orchid garden of the University of KoblenzLandau guest house (Rwanda). D.
, detail of inflorescence of a plant from São Tomé Island. F.
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, detail of inflorescence of a plant from Tanzania. G.
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, detail of flowers of a plant grown at Yaoundé shadehouse (Cameroon). Photographs by: A., D. and G. Vincent Droissart; B. Ehoarn Bidault; C. Eberhard Fischer; E. Tariq Stévart; F. W. Bachmann, facilitated by the World Orchid Iconography of the Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz (Botanical Institute, University of Basel, Switzerland).
<figureCitationid="E7E37DD0FFEE4260EFB7FE78A732FE30"box="[721,789,448,473]"captionStart="FIGURE 3"captionStartId="4.[136,229,1721,1742]"captionTargetBox="[222,1345,732,1673]"captionTargetId="figure-259@4.[207,1380,713,1695]"captionTargetPageId="4"captionText="FIGURE 3. Distribution of the seven species of Kylicanthe in tropical Africa."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13727446"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13727446/files/figure.png"pageId="4"pageNumber="103">Fig. 3</figureCitation>
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, and accordingly the key characters to differentiate
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