Lepanthes genetoapophantica Bogarín & Gravend. 2018 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
Photo by © Bogarín & Gravendand the Anchored hybrid enrichment generated nuclear, plastid and mitochondrial markers resolve the Lepanthes horrida (Orchidaceae: Pleurothallidinae) species complex
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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 Genetically Visible Origin Lepanthes [refers to the genetic work, carried out with the aid of next generation sequencing techniques, that revealed the hidden identity of this species among its relatives]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm] wide
Found in southeastern Costa Rica and western Panama lower wet montane forestss at elevations around 2000 to 2700 meters as a small sized, cold growing, densely caespitose epiphyte with ascending to erect, stout ramicauls enveloped by 4 to 12 lepanthiform sheaths, long cilate along the thickened ribs, dilated at the apex into an oblique, ovate, acuminate ostia with densely ciliate margins and carrying a single, erect, coriaceous, ovate to elliptic, acute, emarginated with a short apiculous at the apex, cuneate below into a distinct petiolate base leaf that blooms at most any time of the year on a dense, distichous, borne by a filiform peduncle .08 to 1.2" [2 to 3 cm] long, 4.8" [12 cm] long overall, successively single, up to 40 or more flowered inflorescence with broadly ovate-triangular, cucullate, acute, glabrous, shorter than the pedicel floral bract.
"This species is closely related to L. chameleon and L. horrida , all with similar red flowers. It was confused by us with L. maxonii however, after studying the type material we realized that it corresponds to the yellow-flowered species most closely allied to L. amicitiae. Therefore, we proposed it here as a new species. From the similar L. horrida it differs in the linear-subfalcate petals (vs. ovate, erect), the yellowish, diverging, sub-trapezoid lobes of the lip (vs. pink, parallel, ovate-elliptic), the lower apices of the lip not reaching the anther cap (vs. reaching the anther cap), the appendix extending beyond the lower apex of the lip (vs. shorter, not extending) and the truncate apex of the column (vs. cleft). From L. chameleon it differs in the glabrous, entire sepals (vs. hirsute, denticulate)." Bogarín & Gravend. 2018
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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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