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Issue: Vol. 560 No. 3: 2 September 2022
Type: Article
Published: 2022-09-02
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.560.3.3
Page range: 285-294
Abstract views: 276
PDF downloaded: 1

A Remarkable new Lepanthes (Orchidaceae: Pleurothallidinae) hidden in plain sight

Grupo de Investigación en Medio Ambiente y Salud BIOMAS, Carrera de Ingeniería Agroindustrial y Alimentos, Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias Agropecuarias, Universidad de Las Américas, UDLA, Vía a Nayón, Quito 170124, Ecuador; Grupo Científico Calaway Dodson, Investigación y Conservación de Orquídeas del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador
Grupo de Investigación en Medio Ambiente y Salud BIOMAS, Carrera de Ingeniería Agroindustrial y Alimentos, Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias Agropecuarias, Universidad de Las Américas, UDLA, Vía a Nayón, Quito 170124, Ecuador; Grupo Científico Calaway Dodson, Investigación y Conservación de Orquídeas del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador
Grupo Científico Calaway Dodson, Investigación y Conservación de Orquídeas del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador; Departamento de Orquideología, Centro de Investigación en Biología Tropical y Conservación – CINBIOTYC, Cal. Nestor Martos Mza. e Lote. 16 A.H. Almirante Miguel Grau II, Piura, Peru
Centro Huaytianum para el Estudio y la Conservación de la Orquídea, Cantarizu, Oxapampa, Pasco, Peru
Grupo de Investigación en Medio Ambiente y Salud BIOMAS, Carrera de Ingeniería Agroindustrial y Alimentos, Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias Agropecuarias, Universidad de Las Américas, UDLA, Vía a Nayón, Quito 170124, Ecuador; Grupo Científico Calaway Dodson, Investigación y Conservación de Orquídeas del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador
Ecuador subgenus Marsipanthes new miniature orchid species Peru Monocots

Abstract

Here we describe a charismatic miniature orchid species, Lepanthes attenboroughii which for many years has been commonly found in private and public collections, misidentified as its related species, L. caprimulgus. The new proposed species, L. attenboroughii has inflated flowers with stripes similar to L. caprimulgus. Nevertheless, L. attenboroughii shows rounder flowers when compared to the longer, tubular flowers with a narrowing of the sepaline cup towards the middle of L. caprimulgus with flowers reminiscent of a peanut. Also, the hidden petals and lip are consistently different when the two species are compared in detail. Most remarkable in this new species are the inflated flowers with the free reflexed portion of the synsepal extending significally farther than the middle of the total length of the sepaline cup.

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How to Cite

Yeager, J., Iturralde, G.A., Ocupa Horna, L., Huayta Baltazar, A. & Baquero R., L.E. (2022)

A Remarkable new Lepanthes (Orchidaceae: Pleurothallidinae) hidden in plain sight

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