GENUS Lepanthopsis

There are 2 SUBGENERA in Lepanthopsis

SUBGENUS Lepanthopsis and

SUBGENUS Microlepanthes Luer 1991

SUBGENUS Lepanthopsis There are 2 SECTIONS to the SUBGENUS Lepanthopsis

SUBGENUS Lepanthopsis SECTION Fractipectin and

SUBGENUS Lepanthopsis SECTION Lepanthopsis

Characterized by the strict, densely and simutaneously many flowered racemes with the flowers in2 opposing ranks that reminded Reichenbach of a tiny comb. The column is short and footless with an apical, bilobed stigma.

TYPE species for the SECTION Lepanthopsis

!Lepanthopsis floripecten (Rchb. f.) Ames 1933

The Species:

  1. Lepanthopsis abbreviata Luer & Hirtz 1991 Colombia, Ecuador

  2. Lepanthopsis acetabulum Luer 1984 Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia

  3. Lepanthopsis acuminata Ames 1938 Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador

  4. Lepanthopsis anthoctenium (Rchb.f.) Ames 1933 Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic

  5. Lepanthopsis aristata Dod 1986 Haiti

  6. Lepanthopsis atrosetifera Dod 1986

  7. Lepanthopsis culiculosa Luer 1984 Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia

  8. Lepanthopsis densiflora (Barb.Rodr.) Ames 1933 Brazil

  9. Lepanthopsis dodii Garay 1969 Haiti, Dominican Republic

  10. Lepanthopsis doucetteana Pfahl, sp.nov. 2020

  11. !Lepanthopsis floripecten (Rchb. f.) Ames 1933 Mexico, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, Fr Guiana, Guyana, Brazil

  12. Lepanthopsis glandulifera Dod 1977 Dominican Republic

  13. Lepanthopsis hirtzii Luer 1991 Colombia, Ecuador

  14. Lepanthopsis legadensis Doucette & Pfahl 2020 Brazil

  15. Lepanthopsis maculanthina L.E.Matthews 2018 Haiti

  16. Lepanthopsis moniliformis Dod 1977 Dominican Republic

  17. Lepanthopsis ornipteridion Dod 1986 Haiti

  18. Lepanthopsis peniculus [Schlechter] Garay 1953

  19. Lepanthopsis pristis Luer & R. Escobar 1986 Colombia

  20. Lepanthopsis prolifera Garay 1954 Colombia

  21. Lepanthopsis purpurata Dod ex Luer 2005 Haiti

  22. Lepanthopsis pygmaea C.Schweinf. 1946 Haiti

  23. Lepanthopsis rinkei Luer 2002 Panama

  24. Lepanthopsis serrulata (Cogn.) Hespenh. & Garay 1968 Dominican Republic

  25. Lepanthopsis ubangii Luer 1991 Ecuador

  26. Lepanthopsis vellozicola R.C.Mota, F.Barros & Stehmann 2009 Brazil

  27. Lepanthopsis vinacea C.Schweinf. 1958 Venezuela, Ecuador
SUBGENUS Lepanthopsis SECTION Fractipectin Luer 1991

TYPE for the SECTION

!Lepanthopsis astrophora (Rchb. f. ex Kraenzl.) Garay 1962

  1. !Lepanthopsis astrophora (Rchb. f. ex Kraenzl.) Garay 1962 Venezuela, Colombia

  2. Lepanthopsis barahonensis (Cogn.) Garay 1969 Dominican Republic, Haiti

  3. Lepanthopsis calva Dod ex Luer 2002 Haiti

  4. Lepanthopsis constanzensis (Cogn.) Garay 1953 Dominiacan Republic

  5. Lepanthopsis cucullata Dod 1986 Haiti, Dominican Republic

  6. Lepanthopsis hotteana [Mansf.] Garay 1953 Haiti

  7. Lepanthopsis lingulata Dod 1986 Haiti

  8. Lepanthopsis melanantha [Rchb.f] Ames 1933 Puerto Rico. Doninican Republic, Haiti, Cuba and Jamaica as well as rarely in the Fakahatchee swamp in Florida USA

  9. Lepanthopsis micheliae Dod 1984 Haiti

  10. Lepanthopsis pulchella Garay & Dunst. 1965 Venezuela

  11. Lepanthopsis stellaris Dod 1978 Dominican Republic

  12. Lepanthopsis steyermarkii Foldats 1968 Venezuela

  13. Lepanthopsis woodsiana Dod ex Luer 2005 Haiti
SUBGENUS Microlepanthes Luer 1991

TYPE For the SUBGENUS

!Lepanthopsis microlepanthes [Griseb.] Ames 1933

  1. Lepanthopsis apoda (Garay & Dunst.) Luer 1982 Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru

  2. Lepanthopsis comet-halleyi Luer 1991 Costa Rica

  3. Lepanthopsis dewildei Luer & R.Escobar 1994 Colombia

  4. Lepanthopsis farrago (Luer & Hirtz) Luer 1991 Ecuador

  5. !Lepanthopsis microlepanthes [Griseb.] Ames 1933 Cuba, Jamaica

  6. Lepanthopsis obliquipetala (Ames & C.Schweinf.) Luer 1991 El Salvador, Costa Rica, Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador

  7. Lepanthopsis trulliformis I.Jiménez 2015 Peru, Bolivia

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