It is not often that one finds a striking new species of Lindmania. Several other species in the genus discovered and described in the last two decades are certainly interesting and beautiful in their own right (L. candelabriformis B. Holst, L. holstii Steyerm. & L.B. Sm., L. oliva-estevae B. Holst), but are somewhat dwarfed (in size and beauty) by Lindmania vinotincta, a new species presented below.

Abstracto. Se describe y se ilustra una nueva especie de Lindmania del suroeste de Venezuela en el Estado Bolivar, en la Sierra de Lema.

Lindmania vinotincta B. Holst & Y. Vivas, sp. nov. TYPE: Venezuela. Bolivar: eastern Sierra de Lema near the border with Guyana, 14-16 April 2007 (fl), 1350-1400 m, Y. Vivas & E. Sanoja 1688 (HT: VEN; IT: GUYN, SEL).

Lindmania vinotincta a L. atrorosea differt: ramis laxe floriferis usque ad 44 cm (non ramis brevibus dense floriferis usque ad 12 cm) longis, bracteis floralibus 5-8 mm (non ca. 2 mm) longis, foliis marginibus integerrimis (non basi laxe serratis), laminis 5-5.8 cm (non 1.5-3-5 cm) latis.

Terrestrial, ca. 2 m tall in flower. Leaves numerous, entire, conspicuously exceeded by the scape; leaf blades 40-50 cm long, 5-5.8 cm wide, glabrous adaxially, sparsely punctate abaxially, apex triangular-acute, margins membranaceous; leaf sheaths unknown; scape ca. 1.5 m long, to 15 mm diam., glabrous, lustrous wine-purple; scape bracts triangular, twice as long as the internodes, light green, apex acute, lanuginous adaxially, margins membranaceous; inflorescence laxly flowered, polystichously two times branched, rachis,...