Clarification of <i>Zamia acuminata</i> and a new <i>Zamia</i> species from Coclé Province, Panama

• DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.98.2.1
• Publication Date: 2013-05-08T00:32:39Z
• Authors: ANDERS J. LINDSTRÖM; MICHAEL CALONJE; DENNIS STEVENSON; CHAD HUSBY; ALBERTO TAYLOR
• Keywords: Panama; Mesoamerica; Type locality

Zamia acuminata has remained an obscure, poorly understood species for over a century due to possibly misinterpreted or erroneous locality data on the unicate sterile type specimen, very brief protologue description, misidentification of plants from El Valle de Antón in Panama as Z. acuminata, and determinations Costa Rica fairchildiana. Recently collected material San José Province is here determined be identical single leaf holotype acuminata. We consider Rican endemic restricted western Talamanca mountain range Province, that Panama, which previously been referred new species, described nana.