New combinations in the genus Didymoplexis (Orchidaceae; Epidendroideae; Gastrodieae), with a new variety of D. siamensis from Amami-Oshima Island, Japan
Author
Suetsugu, Kenji
Department of Biology, Graduate School of Science, Kobe University, 1 - 1 Rokkodai, Nada-ku, Kobe, 657 - 8501, Japan;
Author
Hsu, Tian-Chuan
Botanical Garden Division, Taiwan Forestry Research Institute, No. 53, Nanhai Rd., Taipei 100, Taiwan
text
Phytotaxa
2019
2019-01-15
388
2
174
178
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.388.2.4
journal article
10.11646/phytotaxa.388.2.4
1179-3163
13725214
Didymoplexis siamensis
var.
amamiana
Suetsugu
,
var. nov.
(
Figs. 1A
,
2
)
Type:—
JAPAN
. Ryukyu Islands:
Kagoshima Pref.
, Amami-Oshima Island, Amami City, Naze,
5 May 2018
,
Morita
N
15-04
(
holotype
:
TNS
, a flower in the spirit collection).
Didymoplexis siamensis
var.
amamiana
differs from
D. siamensis
var.
siamensis
only in lacking a pair of the long recurved stelidia on each side of its stigma.
Additional specimens examined:—
JAPAN
.
Ryukyu Islands
:
Kagoshima Pref.
,
Amami-Oshima Island
,
Amami City
,
Naze
,
5 May 2018
,
Morita
N15-07
(
TNS
, a flower in the spirit collection)
;
Kagoshima Pref.
,
Amami-Oshima Island
,
Amami City
,
13 May 2018
,
Morita
N15
-
A
(
KYO
, a flower in the spirit collection)
.
Note:—
The new variety is currently known only from a single population. About 20 flowering individuals were found in a dense forest dominated by
Castanopsis sieboldii
(Makino) Hatusima (1971: 223)
. The new variety is not completely sympatric with
D. siamensis
var.
siamensis
, whereas
D. siamensis
var.
siamensis
can be observed a few hundred meters from the
type
locality.