TYPE: Presumably Costa Rica. Puntarenas-San José: Zona Sur, without further locality data, a plant confiscated by MINAET officers along the southern Pan-American Highway in the Cerro de la Muerte region. Flowered in cultivation at Lankester Botanical Garden, University of Costa Rica, April 27, 2010, JBL-21878 (holotype, CR; isotype, JBL-spirit; illustration of type; photo of the flowers from the plant that served as the holotype; another photo of the flower; another photo of the flowers).