Nidularium lymanioides Pereira & Leme[as Nidularium lymanioides E. Pereira & Leme,]

Diagnose: —PLANTA stolonifera, stolone subtili ca. 10 cm longo, 3 mm in diamet.; FOLIIS 6-12, suberectis vel patentibus, ligulatis, basi utriculum tubulosum conformantibus; VAGINIS ellipticis, 6-10 cm longis, 3-5 cm latis, utrimque praecipue interne sparse pardo-lepidotis, viridibus; LIMBIS 13-20 cm longis, ca. 4 cm latis, basim versus angustatis, apice subrotundatis et minute apiculatis, utrimque viridibus et subglabris, margine subdense sed perinconspicue spinosa, spinis 0,2 mm longis. SCAPUS ca. 6 cm longus, in vivo 3-5 mm diamet., albus, glabrus; BRACTEIS SCALIBUS large ovatis vel suborbicularibus, apice rotundatis et distincte apiculatis, 10-20 cm longis, 8-15 mm latis, scapum haud occultantibus, utrimque inconspicue et aparse pardo-lepidotis, membranaceis, albenscentibus, apicem versus serrulatis. INFLORESCENTIA composita, subcorimbosa, subglobosa, 20-30 mm longa, 20-30 mm in diamet, RAMS 3-6, ca. 3 floris, conspicue pedunculatis, pedunculo ca. 3 mm longo, glabro; BRACTEIS PRIMARIIS 15-20 mm longis, 10-15 m latis, oblongo-ovatis vel suborbicularibus, apice large acutis vel obtusis apiculatisque, erectis, integris vel remote spinosis, utrimque inconspicue et sparse lepidotis, lepidibus integris, infra mediun sepalorun aequantibus; BRACTEIS FLORIFERIS peranguste ovatis, hyalinis vel apicem versus viridescentibus, apice acuminatis vel acutis apiculatisque, ca. 14 mm longis ca. 4 mm latis, ecarinatis, subglabris, integris vel remote spinulosis, ovario aequantibus vel infra mediun sepalorum aequantibus. FLORES cum pedicelli 25-28 mm longi, pedicellis inconspicuis ca. 2 mm longis; SEPALIS viridibus, asymmetris, oblongo-ovatis, apice acutis et apiculatis, ca. 13 mm longis, ca. 5 mm latis, basi ca. 1 mm connatis, glabris, ecarinatis; PETALIS ca 15 mm longis, albis et centraliter viridibus, limbis large elliptico-spathulatis acutisque, per anthesim patentibus, basi 3-4 mm connatis, callis binis longitudinalis auctis; STAMINIBUS inclusis, filamentis ½ vel ultra petala adnatis; ANTHERIS linearibus, 4 mm longis, basi obtusis, apice mucronulatis, infra medium dorsifixis; OVARIO ovato, 6-10 mm longo, subtrigono, glabro, albo; TUBO EPIGYNO 1 mm longo; PLACENTIS apicem loculorum affixis; OVULIS plurimis obtusis.

Observations: —is related mainly to N. simulans Pereira & Leme, from which it differs with leaves totally green and with rounded apex; Scape glabrous; branches of the inflorescence with more flowers; primary and floral bracts entire or almost, finally glabrous, and sepals glabrous.

Edited from : Bradea. (protologue) .