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| Telipogon cruentilabrum in Iturralde, Jiménez, Monteros, Mertel et Baquero, 2025. |
Abstract
Telipogon cruentilabrum, from the cloud montane forest of mid-western Ecuador, is proposed as a new species. Plants of T. cruentilabrum are characterized by the yellow flowers with dark yellow longitudinal veins and tortuous, occasionally branched transversal lines; petals and lip with heavily undulate blades and irregularly reflexed margins; petals with a dark red-brown, swollen base; lip with a conspicuous radial, red-purple basal stain; a large, dark purple-red, elevated callus; anther profusely surrounded by three tufts of red-purple setae; and the stigma wide, sub-trapezoid, dark purple. This species has long been misidentified as T. dendriticus. Although in the holotype no callus is observed on the lip, and in its description and subsequent citations a callus is never mentioned. We provide here a detailed description, figures, distributional map and comparison with its morphological most similar species, T. tamboensis, and also include arguments to discriminate it from T. dendriticus.
Endangered species, New species, Telipogon Alliance, Monocots
Gabbriel A. ITURRALDE, Marco M. JIMÉNEZ, Marco F. MONTEROS, Carlos MARTEL and Luis E. BAQUERO. 2025. Telipogon cruentilabrum (Orchidaceae: Oncidiinae): A New Species from mid-western Ecuador, long misidentified as T. dendriticus. Phytotaxa. 694(3); 271-280. DOI: doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.694.3.6 [2025-03-24]
