A NEW LEPANTHOPSIS 
FROM VENEZUELA 
BY 
CHARLES SCHWEINFURTH 
LikE many other small, recently segregated genera, Le- 
panthopsis is now recorded as rather widespread in the 
American tropics from southern Florida, Central Amer- 
ica and the West Indies into most of northern South 
America as far as Brazil and Peru. The following species 
is the first of its genus, however, to be described from 
Venezuela. 
Lepanthopsis vinacea C. Schweinfurth sp. nov. 
Herba gracilis, epiphytica, caespitosa. Caules tenues, 
vaginis tubulatis, lepanthiformibus, arctis omnino celati. 
Folium erectum, breviter petiolatum; lamina ovalis vel 
oblongo-elliptica, obtusa. Inflorescentiae axillares, singu- 
lae vel perpaucae, quam folium multo longiores, graciles, 
prope apicem densiflorae, cum floribus secundis, vinaceis. 
Flores parvi, membranacei, horizontales. Sepalum dor- 
sale lanceolato-ovatum, superne abruptius angustatum. 
Sepala lateralia oblique ovato-lanceolata, basi connata, in 
partem superiorem acuminatam curvata. Petala sepalis 
multo minora, elliptico-ovata, acuta. Labellum quam 
petala brevius sed latius, in circuitu orbiculare cum auri- 
culis retrorsis, triangulari-incurvis. Columna generis. 
Plant small, slender, epiphytic. Roots fibrous, flexu- 
ous, glabrous, numerous. Stems simple, caespitose, slen- 
der, apically unifoliate, up to 5.7 cm. long, entirely con- 
cealed by several (up to 9) close, tubular, lepanthiform 
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