Lepanthes amicitiae Bogarín & Pupulin 2018 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
Photo/TYPE Drawing by © Bogarin and the Anchored hybrid enrichment generated nuclear, plastid and mitochondrial markers resolve the Lepanthes horrida (Orchidaceae: Pleurothallidinae) species complex
Common Name or Meaning The Friendship Lepanthes [An allusion to La Amistad (The Friendship) International Park, a protected area which spans over southeastern Costa Rica and western Panama, where the type specimen was collected, and alluding to the friendship among the researchers of the University of Costa Rica and the University of Chiriquí, who are linked by a long-term, common floristic project]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm] wide
Found in southeastern Costa Rica and western Panama lower wet montane forestss at elevations around 2100 to 2500 meters as a small sized, cold growing, densely caespitose epiphyte with ascending to erect, stout ramicauls enveloped by 5 to 22 lepanthiform sheaths, long cilate aalong the thickened ribs, dilated at the apex into a horizontal, ovate, acute ostia with densely ciliate margins and carrying a single, erect, subcoriaceous, elliptic, acute, emarginated with a short apiculous at the apex, cuneate below into a distinct petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a dense, distichous, borne by a filiform peduncle 1.4 to 1.8" [4 to 4.8 cm] long, 3.2" [8 cm] long overall, successively single, up to 20 or more flowered inflorescence with broadly ovate-triangular, cucullate, obtuse, sparsely glandular, shorter than the pedicel floral bract.
"This species is mostly closely related to L. maxonii , another species with similar yellow sepals and a red blotch at the base of the synsepal. Rudolf Schlechter described L. maxonii from Cerro de Horqueta, Chiriquí, Panama from a collection by R.W. Maxon in 1911. The type specimen was destroyed in the herbarium B during the Second World War, however the drawing based on the holotype specimen shows the oblong-elliptic upper lobe of the petals, which differs from the rounded, suborbicular lobe of L. amicitiae.' Bogarín & Gravend. 2018
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Anchored hybrid enrichment generated nuclear, plastid and mitochondrial markers resolve the Lepanthes horrida (Orchidaceae: Pleurothallidinae) species complex Bogarín & Gravend. 2018 Drawing/photo fide
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