Two new orchid species (<i>Camaridium</i>: Maxillariinae; <i>Lepanthes</i>: Pleurothallidinae) from the Pacific slope of the Northern Andes, Colombia

Authors

  • Oscar Alejandro Pérez-Escobar Comparative Plant and Fungal Biology, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. TW9 3AE, London, UK
  • Carlos Jaramillo Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama; ISEM, Université de Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Montpellier, France
  • Alejandro Zuluaga Universidad del Valle, Ciudad Universitaria Melendez, Cali, Colombia
  • Santiago García-Revelo Universidad del Valle, Ciudad Universitaria Melendez, Cali, Colombia
  • Steven Dodsworth University of Bedfordshire B ECLC, Luton LU1 3JU, UK
  • Diego Bogarín Jardín Botánico Lankester, Universidad de Cost a Rica, P. O. Box 302-7050 Cartago, Costa Rica; Herbario UCH, Universidad Autónoma de Chiriquí, David, Panamá; Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Evolutionar y Ecology group, Leiden, The Netherlands

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15517/lank.v21i3.49471

Keywords:

Andes, Chocó biogeographic region, epiphyte diversity, Neotropical realm, new species, Orchidaceae

Abstract

The Northern Andean Cordillera in Colombia hosts unique, megadiverse, and fragile ecosystems, including wet tropical lowland, cloud forest, and paramo that are essential for climate regulation and the subsistence of human settlements. The Serrania de Los Paraguas on the Pacific slope of the western range of the Northern Andes, Colombia, is an ecosystem that needs to be preserved in the face of a major threat due to rapid deforestation. However, there have been very few explorations surveying its plant diversity in the area. Here, we describe two new orchid species from the genera Camaridium (C. antonellii: Maxillariinae, Cymbidieae) and Lepanthes (L. valerieae: Pleurothallidinae, Epidendreae) discovered during a floristic survey conducted in the region. Camaridium antonellii is similar to C. inauditum but differs in the fractiflex, ovate-elliptic, acute leaves, the flowers with pink sepals and petals, the lip white, distinctly three-lobed, spotted with purple on the lateral lobes and yellow-cream towards the apex, the mid-lobe ovate to transverse ovate and lanceolate sepals. Lepanthes valerieae, which is similar to L. antennata, differs in the long apical lobes of the petals, surpassing the dorsal sepal, the longer connectives > 18 mm, rounded lobes of the lip, and the oblong, flattened appendix. Illustrations, distribution maps, and photographs are provided.

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Published

2021-12-17

How to Cite

Pérez-Escobar, O. A., Jaramillo, C., Zuluaga, A., García-Revelo, S., Dodsworth, S., & Bogarín, D. (2021). Two new orchid species (&lt;i&gt;Camaridium&lt;/i&gt;: Maxillariinae; &lt;i&gt;Lepanthes&lt;/i&gt;: Pleurothallidinae) from the Pacific slope of the Northern Andes, Colombia. Lankesteriana: International Journal on Orchidology, 21(3), 351–362. https://doi.org/10.15517/lank.v21i3.49471

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