taxonID	type	description	language	source
155E87ED440D9F7DD8F7FF0DFD61FA11.taxon	materials_examined	Type: — PERU. Amazonas: Prov. Chachapoyas, Dist. Magdalena, above “ Saula ”, 187463.00 m E, 9291401.00 m S, 2800 m, 20 March 2016, A. Damián & J. Torres 7010 (holotype MOL!, isotype UFV!). Similar to Lepanthes golbasto Luer & Hirtz in Luer (1985: 164) from which it differs by its smooth ovary, marginally smooth sepals, and oblong, glabrous, apically 1 – 2 long ciliate blades of the lip. Plant small, epiphytic, caespitose to 10 cm tall. Roots slender, flexuous, to 0.5 mm in diameter. Ramicauls, slender, erect, 1 – 3 cm long, enclosed by 3 – 7, closely adpressed, ribbed, microscopically scabrous lepanthiform sheaths, dilated at apex into an obliquely lanceolate, acuminate ostia, ciliate along the margins. Leave s erect, coriaceous, obovate, shortly mucronate at the apex, 0.7 – 1.5 cm long, 0.6 – 0.7 mm wide, base cuneate into a petiole 1 mm long, the apex cuspidate-acute, excise, with the tip of the central vein protruding abaxially within the sinus. Inflorescence exceeding the leaf, a subdense, successively several-flowered, loose raceme up to 5.5 cm long, including the 1.2 cm long peduncle; floral bracts conduplicate, acute, densely muricate, 1.5 mm long; pedicel terete, persistent, 2 mm long. Ovary terete, 1.5 mm. Flowers comparatively small for the size of the plant, non-resupinate, the sepals purple-red, the veins pale yellow, the petals red, slightly pale red at the apex, the lip pinkish, the anther yellow. Sepal s, glabrous, carinate, margins smooth, the dorsal sepal triangular, 5 mm long, 2 mm wide, 3 - veined, slightly convex, connate to the lateral sepals for 1 mm, the lateral sepals connnate 3 mm into an ovate, concave, bifid synsepal 5 mm long, 2.5 wide, each 2 - veined, the apices attenuate, acute. Petals, densely long-ciliate, antrorse, transversely bilobed, 0.5 mm long, 3.5 mm wide, the upper lobe broader, oblong, sub-obtuse, lower lobe narrowly oblong, acute. Lip, bilaminate, fused to the column almost at middle of it, the blades glabrous, narrowly oblong 2.5 mm long, 0.5 mm wide, the bases rounded, apices acute with 1 – 2 conspicous cilia, connectives broadly oblong, appendix pubescent, narrowly linear, uncinate and in contact with the stigma, 0.5 mm long. Column terete, 1 mm long; the anther and stigma apical. Anther cap cucullate, 2 - celled. Pollinia 2, obpyriform. Capsule not seen.	en	Damian, Alexander, Larsen, Bruno (2017): Three new species of Lepanthes (Pleurothalldinae: Orchidaceae) From Amazonas, Peru. Phytotaxa 291 (2): 149-156, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.291.2.6, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.291.2.6
155E87ED440D9F7DD8F7FF0DFD61FA11.taxon	etymology	Etymology: — The name of this species is in reference of their petals with the canine teeth of the Mammalia genus Odobenus, the walrus.	en	Damian, Alexander, Larsen, Bruno (2017): Three new species of Lepanthes (Pleurothalldinae: Orchidaceae) From Amazonas, Peru. Phytotaxa 291 (2): 149-156, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.291.2.6, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.291.2.6
155E87ED440D9F7DD8F7FF0DFD61FA11.taxon	distribution	Distribution and habitat: — Up to now this species is only know from one locality, in the high mountains of Magdalena (Chachapoyas), Peru. The plant grows as an epiphyte forming dense colonies on the base of trees and lower branches, in very humid cloud forest, at about 2,800 m elevation.	en	Damian, Alexander, Larsen, Bruno (2017): Three new species of Lepanthes (Pleurothalldinae: Orchidaceae) From Amazonas, Peru. Phytotaxa 291 (2): 149-156, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.291.2.6, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.291.2.6
155E87ED440D9F7DD8F7FF0DFD61FA11.taxon	discussion	Comments: — Lepanthes odobenus is similar to the Ecuadorian Lepanthes golbasto Luer & Hirtz, because both present a subdense, successively several-flowered, loose raceme with purple-red flowers. However, Lepanthes odobenus, can be easily distinguished from by its larger habit, marginally entire leaves (vs. shortly ciliate), marginally smooth sepals (vs. ciliate or papillose), and slender, glabrous, 2 mm long, apically 1 – 2 long-ciliate blades of the lip (vs. ovate, pubescent, 1 mm long, marginally ciliate blades).	en	Damian, Alexander, Larsen, Bruno (2017): Three new species of Lepanthes (Pleurothalldinae: Orchidaceae) From Amazonas, Peru. Phytotaxa 291 (2): 149-156, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.291.2.6, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.291.2.6
155E87ED440D9F7BD8F7FA20FEFDFD5B.taxon	materials_examined	Type: — PERU. Amazonas: Prov. Chachapoyas, Dist. Magdalena, above “ Saula ”, 187463.00 m E, 9291401.00 m S, 2800 m, 20 March 2016, A. Damian & J. Torres 7001 (holotype MOL!, isotype UFV!). This species is similar to Lepanthes vasquezii Luer (1983: 375), but differs from it by its flowers more spread throughout the raceme, larger and longer pedicelate flowers. Plant medium in size, epiphytic, caespitose, to 25 cm tall. Roots slender, flexuous, to 0.5 – 0.7 mm in diameter. Ramicauls slender, erect, 4 – 7 cm, enclosed by 4 – 6, closely adpressed, ribbed, minutely ciliate-muriculate, pale brown lepanthiform sheaths with obliquely acute dilated apices. Leaves erect, coriaceous, eliptical, subacute to obtuse, 3.7 – 5 cm long, 1.2 – 2.7 cm wide, cuneate at the base into a conduplicate petiole 2 – 3 mm long, the apex cuspidate-acute, excise, with the tip of the central vein protruding abaxially within the sinus. Inflorescence exceeding the leaf, a loose, secund, successively many-flowered raceme up to 23 cm long, borne by a peduncle 6 – 10 cm long; floral bracts conduplicate, acute, muricate, 2 mm long; pedicels terete, persistent, 1.8 – 2.3 cm long. Ovary ribbed, 4 mm long. Flowers large, equal long or longer than the leaves, resupinate, sepals puce, with green margins, petals bright green, suffused with brown near the middle, lip bright green, column and anther pinkish. Sepals, glabrous, dorsal sepal ovate, concave, acute, the apex atenuated into a slender tail, 3.2 cm long, 1.2 cm wide, 3 - veined, connate to the lateral sepals by 1 mm, the lateral sepals 2 veined, connate almost one third of their length into an ovate, acute, bilobed synsepal, the attenuated apex bifurcated into slender tails that are approximate each one, 3.4 – 4.2 cm long, 1 – 1.4 cm wide. Petals, densely papillose, transversely and unequally bilobed, 3 mm long, 7 mm wide, the upper lobe triangular, apex rounded, the lower lobe abruptly narrow-oblanceolate, apex acuminate, slightly oblique. Lip, minutely pubescent, 2.5 mm long, 1 mm wide, fused to the column almost at middle of it, the blades falcate-oblanceolate, apically acute, basely rounded, cilliate, connectives short, the appendix oblong, densely pubescent, thickened at the apex. Column terete, 1.5 mm long; anther apical, stigma ventral. Anther cap cucullate, 2 - celled. Pollinia 2, obpyriform. Capsule not seen.	en	Damian, Alexander, Larsen, Bruno (2017): Three new species of Lepanthes (Pleurothalldinae: Orchidaceae) From Amazonas, Peru. Phytotaxa 291 (2): 149-156, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.291.2.6, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.291.2.6
155E87ED440D9F7BD8F7FA20FEFDFD5B.taxon	etymology	Etymology: — The specific name is in reference to the country where the type was collected, Peru.	en	Damian, Alexander, Larsen, Bruno (2017): Three new species of Lepanthes (Pleurothalldinae: Orchidaceae) From Amazonas, Peru. Phytotaxa 291 (2): 149-156, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.291.2.6, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.291.2.6
155E87ED440D9F7BD8F7FA20FEFDFD5B.taxon	distribution	Distribution and hábitat: — Up to now this species is known only from Peru, in the high mountains of Amazonas. We have also seen photos from other two locations, one in the Colan Cordillera, close to district of Cajaruro (L. R.), and one more in the vicinity of Leymebamba (M. S.), both from Amazonas. The plant grows as an epiphyte forming colonies on lower branches in very humid cloud forest, at about 2,800 m elevation.	en	Damian, Alexander, Larsen, Bruno (2017): Three new species of Lepanthes (Pleurothalldinae: Orchidaceae) From Amazonas, Peru. Phytotaxa 291 (2): 149-156, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.291.2.6, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.291.2.6
155E87ED440D9F7BD8F7FA20FEFDFD5B.taxon	discussion	Comments: — Both vegetatively and florally, this handsome large flowered species is superficially similar to Lepanthes vasquezii, from neighboring Bolivia. The flowers of Lepanthes peruviana are distinguished from those of L. vasquezii by their larger size, smooth ovary, and lateral sepals connate by about one third of their length into a long tailed, bifid synsepal. The petals are similar in shape, but L. peruviana has the lower lobes more acuminate, and upper lobes more oblong.	en	Damian, Alexander, Larsen, Bruno (2017): Three new species of Lepanthes (Pleurothalldinae: Orchidaceae) From Amazonas, Peru. Phytotaxa 291 (2): 149-156, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.291.2.6, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.291.2.6
155E87ED440B9F79D8F7FCDFFDC4FC7E.taxon	materials_examined	Type: — PERU. Amazonas: Prov. Chachapoyas, Dist. Magdalena, above “ Saula ”, 187463.00 m E, 9291401.00 m S, 2800 m, 20 March 2016, A. Damian & J. Torres 7003 (holotype MOL!, isotype UFV!). Among the large species of Lepanthes with congested racemes, this species is noted for the lip with blades with obliquely truncate crenate bases and round, cilliate apices, and petals with a conspicuous mucro between the two lobes. Plant large, epiphytic, shortly ascending, caespitose. Roots coarse, flexuous, to 0.2 cm in diameter. Ramicauls stout, erect 35 – 50 cm long, enclosed by 11 – 16 cloosely adpressed, ribbed, glabrous, pale brown, lepanthiform sheaths, densely ciliate on the margins of the upper ostia. Leaf erect, coriaceous, elliptical-ovate, acuminate, 5 – 9.5 cm long, 2 – 4.5 mm wide, the base cuneate into a conduplicate petiole of 3 – 5 mm long, the apex acuminate. Inflorescence a congested, succesively many-flowered raceme, distichous, up to 6 cm long including the peduncle of 1.5 – 2 cm long, borne on the abaxial surface of the leaf; floral bracts conduplicate, acuminate, glabrous, 3.2 mm long; pedicel terete, persistent, 3 mm long. Ovary terete, 3.1 mm long. Flowers comparatively small for the size of the plant, resupinate, the sepals orange-yellow to intense reddish (sometimes with yellow margins), the veins pale red, the petals orange to reddish with flushed margins and sometimes with a yellow spot between the lobes, the lip entirely reddish or with orange at the basal part and strongly reddish on the apex, the column and anther pinkish. Sepals, glabrous, carinate, margins irregularly ciliate, the dorsal sepal ovate-triangular, acute-acuminate, 8.5 mm long, 7 mm wide, 3 - veined, connate to the lateral sepals for 1 – 1.5 mm, the lateral sepals obliquely ovate, acute, the apices long acuminate and diverging, 8 – 9 mm long, 7 – 7.3 mm wide, connate by 3 – 3.5 mm in their bases, 2 - veined. Petals glabrous, margins microscopically cilliate, transversely bilobed, 3 – 3.5 mm long, 5 – 6 mm wide, constricted by a sinus between the lobes and with a thick triangular conspicuous mucro, the lobes unequal, the upper one oblong, oblique, basally angled, broadly truncate, the lower lobe narrowly obliquely oblong-triangular, acute, rounded at the apex. Lip bilaminate, fused to the column above of the base of it, indented below the middle, oblanceolate, 3 – 3.5 mm long, apically rounded, baselly obliquely subrounded, crenate, cilliate, angled on the inner margin, the connectives short, connate above the base of the column, the appendix minute, oblong, bilobed at the tip, densely pubescent. Column terete, 2 mm long; the anther apical, the stigma ventral. Anther cap 2 - celled. Pollinia 2, obpyriform. Capsule not seen. Additional specimens examined: — PERU. Cajamarca: Prov. Cutervo, Cerro Ilucan, 1130 m, June 2016. L. Ocupa 0213 (HUT, photo!); Piura: Prov. Huancabamba, Huarmaca, 2100 m. January 2016. A. Diaz 009 (HUT, photo!).	en	Damian, Alexander, Larsen, Bruno (2017): Three new species of Lepanthes (Pleurothalldinae: Orchidaceae) From Amazonas, Peru. Phytotaxa 291 (2): 149-156, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.291.2.6, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.291.2.6
155E87ED440B9F79D8F7FCDFFDC4FC7E.taxon	etymology	Etymology: — Named for its close affinity to L. profusa.	en	Damian, Alexander, Larsen, Bruno (2017): Three new species of Lepanthes (Pleurothalldinae: Orchidaceae) From Amazonas, Peru. Phytotaxa 291 (2): 149-156, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.291.2.6, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.291.2.6
155E87ED440B9F79D8F7FCDFFDC4FC7E.taxon	distribution	Distribution and habitat: — Up to now, this species is known only from Northern Peru, in Piura, Cajamarca and Amazonas provinces. This plant grows as an epiphyte forming densely colonies on the base of trees in very humid cloud forest at about 2,800 m elevation.	en	Damian, Alexander, Larsen, Bruno (2017): Three new species of Lepanthes (Pleurothalldinae: Orchidaceae) From Amazonas, Peru. Phytotaxa 291 (2): 149-156, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.291.2.6, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.291.2.6
155E87ED440B9F79D8F7FCDFFDC4FC7E.taxon	discussion	Comments: — The most distinguishing feature for this species is the transverse, thick, mucro-like callus between the lobes of the petals. Lepanthes profusa is similar both vegetatively and florally, but is distinguished by the lip with elliptical blades and petals with broadly ovate upper-, and oblong lower lobes, without the tranverse callus at the constriction near the middle of the petals.	en	Damian, Alexander, Larsen, Bruno (2017): Three new species of Lepanthes (Pleurothalldinae: Orchidaceae) From Amazonas, Peru. Phytotaxa 291 (2): 149-156, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.291.2.6, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.291.2.6
