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Issue: Vol. 664 No. 3: 10 Sept. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-09-10
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.664.3.4
Page range: 191-199
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Unhiding Colombian orchid treasures: A new Lepanthes (Orchidaceae) from the northeastern Andes in Colombia

Instituto de Proyección Regional y Educación a Distancia (IPRED). Universidad Industrial de Santander - sede Málaga. Cl 20 # 6 - 20 Málaga, Colombia. Grupo de investigación y conservación de la flora de la Región Capital como estrategia de adaptación al cambio climático, Jardín Botánico José Celestino Mutis.
Grupo de Estudios Botánicos (GEOBOTA) and Instituto de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Antioquia, Calle 67 Nº 53-108, Medellín, Colombia
Instituto de Proyección Regional y Educación a Distancia (IPRED). Universidad Industrial de Santander - sede Málaga. Cl 20 # 6 - 20 Málaga, Colombia
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.
endemic species oak-forest plant taxonomy Pleurothallidinae Monocots

Abstract

A new species of Lepanthes from the eastern Colombian Andes from the department of Santander has been discovered. Here it is described, illustrated, and compared with species with morphological affinities, particularly with the sympatric Lepanthes rabei, from which it can be separated by a combination of traits: the larger plant length, reaching up to 8.28 cm in height, the elliptical-lanceolate leaves, concolor, the sepals not denticulate, the lip blades ovate-oblong, obtuse, slightly falcate at the apex, the long cilia at the lip tip and the appendix minute, reflexed downwards, pubescent. Information about its distribution, phenology, and conservation status is also provided.

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