• The article details the discovery of the new species, which occurred thanks to the development of the Environmental Monitoring Plan for Block 95, operated by PetroTal.

The discovery of a new species of orchid in the Peruvian Amazon, announced in October last year, has been documented in a recent paper published in Phytotaxa, the world's most prestigious scientific journal in flora studies, after a rigorous evaluation.

The article describes in detail the distribution, taxonomy and characteristics of the Specklinia bretannensis, named after the town of Bretaña, capital of the district of Puinahua (Loreto), where the Biodiversity Monitoring Project (PMB) is being developed. Lot 95, operated by PetroTal.

With a tiny flower -no bigger than a grain of rice- this orchid is part of the genre Specklinia and of the subgenre Hymenodanthae of the great Amazonian plain of Peru.

The The discovery was made in the area of influence of Location 2. of the Brittany Field of Block 95, thanks to the work of PMB specialists, who provide periodic scientific information on the status of the ecosystem, as part of PetroTal's environmental management.

In 2022, also thanks to the PMB, we achieved the first record in Peru of the Thamnophilus praecox, known as Batará de cocha, another valuable contribution to the scientific knowledge of the country's biodiversity.

The article was developed by the orchid specialists by the consulting firm Pukuni, the Universidad Nacional Toribio Rodríguez de Mendoza and the Universidad Católica Sedes Sapientiae, with the collaboration of the Universidad Autónoma de México and the Centro Interdisciplinario de Investigación para el Desarrollo Integral Regional - Unidad Oaxaca (Mexico).