New Orchid: ‘Lophiaris silverarum’ is known to grow only in Panama
One day about eight years ago a postdoctoral scholar and her father were on a field trip in a mountainous area in central Panama when they stumbled upon an orchid they had never seen before. Unable to identify it, they contacted an orchid expert. The orchid, which turned out to be an unnamed species, has now been named after the these two: ‘Lophiaris silverarum.