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 .36" [9 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 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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