Lepanthes diacantha 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 Two Spined Lepanthes [in reference to the flower petals with uncinate lobes] on either side of the column
Flower Size .016" [4 mm]
Found in Zamora Chinchipe province of Ecuador growing on slender branches, at elevations around 1530 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with a terete, erect stem enveloped by 11, papery, tubular, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, orbicular, petiolate base leaf that blooms on an erect, peduncle terete, .376" to .788" [9.4 to 19.7 mm] long, rachis short, racemose, slowly successively single, few flowered inflorescence with papery, tubular floral bracts.
"The new species is similar to Lepanthes pelyx , but distinguished by the green leaves (vs. purple, lightly reticulate), inflorescences held on the upper side of the leaf (vs. beneath), denticulate sepal margins (vs. ciliate), orange-brown petals (vs. green), glabrous lip (vs. minutely ciliate), lip blades obtuse (vs. acute and incurved)." A Doucette H.Medina & J.Portilla 2025
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Andreettana 1(4): 31 H.Medina & J.Portilla 2025 2025 Photo/drawing fide
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