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Issue: Vol. 572 No. 2: 10 November 2022
Type: Article
Published: 2022-11-10
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.572.2.6
Page range: 193-202
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Orchid discoveries in the Caribbean: A new Lepanthes (Pleurothallidinae) with a gigantic disc-shaped lip endemic to Cuba

Programa de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Caldas, Calle 65 #26-10, Manizales, Colombia. Grupo de Investigación Schultes, Fundación Ecotonos, Carrera 72 #13A-56, Cali, Colombia. Grupo Científico Calaway Dodson: Investigación y Conservación de Orquídeas del Ecuador, Quito, 170510, Pichincha, Ecuador. Semillero de Investigación en Plantas y Afines - PHYTOS, Grupo de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Recursos Naturales – BIONAT.
Unión Eléctrica (UNE), Dirección de Generación con Fuentes Renovables de Energía (DGFRE). La Habana, Cuba.
Jardín Botánico Nacional, Universidad de La Habana, Carretera El Rocío, km 31⁄2, Calabazar, Boyeros, La Habana, Cuba, C.P. 19230.
Taxonomy Lepanthes macrolabia endemism Antilles Monocots

Abstract

A new species of Lepanthes from Eastern Cuba, restricted to a small locality in the province of Guantánamo, where it grows lithophytically adjacent to the Río Duaba, near sea level is described and illustrated. This new species can be easily distinguished from other Cuban species by its small plant size, no more than 2 cm long, bearing a relatively large flower with reflexed sepals, an entire disc-shaped lip, compounded by two reniform basal lobes without an appendix, being easily one of the largest lips within the Lepanthes genus from Cuba.

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