Photos by Marlon Machado.

  A friend of Maria Teresa recently found in the field a species that none of us could identify, but George and Dan suggest it might be this little known species they came across when preparing the Flora Neotropica account.

 Flora Neotropica account (Austin & Staples, unpublished):

 [Operculina flammea (Nees) Meisner in Martius, Fl.  Bras. 7: 212. 1869.