A new species of (Heliconiaceae) with pendent inflorescence, from Chucantí Private Nature Reserve, eastern Panama.

(Heliconiaceae), a new species from premontane forest of eastern Panama, is described, illustrated and its conservation status evaluated. bears pink flowers, an uncommon color in this group. It differs from the Colombian species and , the most similar taxa, by the combination of a petiole glabrous except for the woolly base, a very long peduncle, the perianth pubescent at the apex and staminode with cuspidate apex. is also similar to in all four of its varieties and to in two of its four varieties, but differs by a combination of the long peduncle, pink flowers and staminode with cuspidate apex. Fifty-six species have been found in Panama, eighteen of them endemic.