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

Diagnose: —PLANTA stolonifera, stolone gracili ca. 5 cm longo vel ultra; FOLIIS ca. 12, suberectis, rosuletis, ligulatis, basi utriculum infundibuliformem conformantibus; VAGINIS obovatis, ca. 8 cm longis, ca. 5,5 cm latis, utrimque praecipue basim versus dense brunneo-ledidotis; LIMBIS ca. 20 cm longis, ca. 3 cm latis, basim versus angustatis et leviter canaliculatis, apice acuminatis apiculatisque, apiculis membranaceis desinentibus, utrimque viridibus atque inconspicue lepidotis, margine subdense spinosa, spinis 0,5-1 mm longis. SCAPUS ca. 5,5 cm longus, lanatus, vaginis foliorum occultus; BRACTEIS PRIMARIIS infimis foliaceis, alteris peranguste ovatis, apice acuminatis apiculatisque, margine dense serrulata, utrimque lepidotis, scapum omnino occultantibus. INFLORESCENTIA composita, paulo supra vaginam foliorum emergens, capitata, subcorymbosa, ca. 4 cm diamet. RAMIS ca. 5, 30-35 mm longis, conspicue pedunculatis, pedunculo lanato, ca. 4 mm longo, externis subflabellatis, saepe ramulosis, 4-5 floris; BRACTEIS PRIMARIIS 5-6 cm longis , 15-20 mm latis, peranguste ovatis, apice acutis et apiculatis, margine apicem versus dense serrata, suberectis, rubris, utrimque inconspicue lepidotis, altitudinem ramulorum superantibus; BRACTEIS FLORIFERIS obovatis, apice acuminatis, leviter carinatis, ca. 20 mm longis, 10 mm latis, margine apicem versus serrulata; externe sparse lanatis. FLORES subsessiles, ca. 35 mm longi; SEPALIS subsymmetris, large elliptico-obovatis, apice acutis et longe apiculatis, ca. 18 mm longis, 8 mm latis, basim versus dense lanatis, basi ca. 2 mm connatis; PETALIS ca. 25 mm longis, albis, acutis, per anthesim suberectis, base connatis; STAMINIBUS inclusis; ANTHERIS linearibus, ca. 4 mm longis, base obtusis, apice mucronulatis; OVARIO obovato, trigono, dense lanato, ca. 8 mm longo; tubo epigyno ca. 2 mm longo, infundibuliformi; PLACENTIS apice afixis; OVULIS obtusis. TYPUS: Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Angra dos Reis. Leg. A.Seidel No 717, em 01/06/1976 (HOLOTYPUS HB).

Observations: —This new species is near N. microps E Morren ex Mez, from which it differs by the primary bracts being narrow ovate, contrasting with the well developed branches; flowers of a larger size, floral bracts of a distinct form and margins serrulate, and in the sepals being elliptic-obovate.

Edited from : Bradea. (protologue) .