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Fosterella batistana Ibisch, Leme & J.Peters

Publ: Selbyana 29(2): 184-185 (2009)

Type: BRAZIL. Pará: Itaituba, 400 km on the road from Santarém to Cuiabá, Curuá-una waterfall (west side of Serra do Cachimbo), J. B. Fernandes da Silva s.n., fl. cult. Jan. 2001, E. Leme 5078 (holotype HB!, isotypes FR!, LPB, RB!, SEL!). (figs. 8 A to D)

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Distribution: BRAZIL: Pará

Habitat: growing as a saxicole in a very humid site, near a waterfall, in the Amazon forest.

Etymology: The epithet of this species honors the collector of the type specimen, the Amazonian orchid specialist, João Batista Fernandes da Silva, who has discovered countless new species.

Fosterella batistana