Melisa Alegría

University of Valle | UNIVALLE

Two new pleurothallid species of the genera Lepanthes and Pleurothallis, native to cloud forest remnants of the eastern Andes of Colombia, are described and illustrated. Lepanthes pseudoabitaguae is compared with Lepanthes abitaguae, from which it differs by the color of the flowers and by the oblong and biglandular appendix. Pleurothallis falcata...

Eight new species of Lepanthes from the Farallones National Natural Park in Colombia are described and illustrated. These species are morphologically compared with the most similar species to corroborate their identity. Additionally, each of the eight new species is dedicated to a Colombian woman who has made history in several fields in the countr...

A new species of Pleurothallis from subsection Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae is described and illustrated. The new species is compared with Pleurothallis folsomii from Panama. Pleurothallis celsia is most similar to a group of species with small, yellow flowers but it can be recognized mainly by its lip, which is widely ovate, the surface and margin pi...

Extensive fieldwork carried out on the Andean forests of Colombia resulted in the discovery of Lepanthes cordillerana, described here as a novel taxon. The new species is most similar to Lepanthes teres from Ecuador, from which it can be easily distinguished by the ciliated margins of the leaf, the oblong-acute lower lobe of the petals and the capi...

Four new species of Lepanthes from the southwestern Andes of Colombia are described, illustrated, and compared with morphologically similar species. The new species were found in San José del Salado, the Municipality of Dagua, Department of Valle del Cauca where several new species have been found and described in the past years.

Three new species of Lepanthes from the Western Cordillera of the Colombian Andes are described and illustrated. The new species were found during several botanical expeditions to the mountains in San José del Salado, department of Valle del Cauca, Colombia.