| Résumé: | <i>Masdevallia</i> Ruiz. & Pav. in the broad concept comprises about 350 species distributed from southern Mexico to southern Brazil with the highest diversity in the Andes of Ecuador and Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia. Until now, only six species have been found in Guatemala. While studying the diversity of the orchid flora in this megadiverse country, we came across plants that in terms of morphological characteristics, were intermediate between <i>M. floribunda</i> Lindl. and <i>M. tuerckheimii</i> Ames. All three taxa are pollinated by two so far undescribed species of <i>Zygothrica</i> fruit flies. In the presented work, we describe the new entity as a new natural hybrid. This is the first record of the hybridization within the genus <i>Masdevallia</i> from Guatemala.
|
|---|