Lepanthes chrysokallos A.Doucette, H.Medina & J.Portilla 2025 SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Mucronatae Luer 1996
LCDP Photo/TYPE Drawing by © Hugo Medina
Common Name or Meaning The Beautiful Yellow Lepanthes
Flower Size
Found in Zamora Chinchipe province of Ecuador growing on slender branches, at elevations around 1500 meters as a miniature to small sized, cool growing epiphyte with a terete, erect stem enveloped by 13, papery, tubular, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, ovate, petiolate base leaf that blooms on an erect, beneath the leaf, peduncle terete, .118 to 1.36" [29.7 to 34 mm] long, rachis short, racemose, slowly successively single, few flowered inflorescence with papery, tubular floral bracts.
"The new species is similar to Lepanthes setifera , but differs in having yellow sepals (vs. translucent greenish white), acute sepal apices (vs. slightly acuminate), a triangular upper petal lobe (vs. oblong), and a convex lip lamina lacking long trichomes (vs. concave with long trichomes)." A Doucette H.Medina & J.Portilla 2025
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Andreettana 1(4): 35 H.Medina & J.Portilla 2025 2025 Photo/drawing fide
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