Maracanthus costaricensis (Kuijt) Kuijt ( Kuijt 2014: 176 )

Murillo-Serna, Jhon S., Carmona-Gallego, Isabel, Roldán, Francisco J., Sierra-Giraldo, Julio A. & Alzate-Guarín, Fernando, 2025, Synopsis of Maracanthus (Loranthaceae) and description of M. kuijtii, a new species from the Eastern Andes of Colombia, Plant Ecology and Evolution 158 (1), pp. 14-22 : 14-22

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5091/plecevo.127900
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14671171
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scientific name	Maracanthus costaricensis (Kuijt) Kuijt ( Kuijt 2014: 176 )
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3. Maracanthus costaricensis (Kuijt) Kuijt ( Kuijt 2014: 176) View in CoL

Oryctina costaricensis Kuijt ( Kuijt 2007: 476) View in CoL

Type.

COSTA RICA • Puntarenas: Cantón de Osa, Reserva Forestal Golfo Dulce, Península de Osa, Rancho Quemado , Sector Sureste ; 8°40’50”N, 83°33’00”W; 250 m; 16 Sep. 1992; fl., fr.; J. Marin & D. Marin 521; holotype: UC [ UC 1955568 ] digital image; isotypes: CR not seen, INB not seen, MO [ MO-2061852 ] digital image GoogleMaps .

Iconography.

Kuijt (2007: figs 1, 2).

Distribution.

The species is distributed in the remnants of tropical moist forest at the Osa Peninsula in southwestern Costa Rica at elevations close to 250 m.

Notes.

Maracanthus costaricensis is recognised by the combination of young ancipitate stems, with vertices conspicuously covered by creamy-greyish cork lines, pedunculate spikes, peduncles keeled or ancipitate with sharp edges as the young stems, the fertile portion of the inflorescence black with acute bracts, and short stamens with the connective horn acute and similar in size to the anther.