Lepanthes brachystele Salazar & Soto Arenas, 1996

Solano, Rodolfo, Licona, Ethian, Carral, Rodrigo & Téllez-Baños, Bruno, 2025, Two new species, nomenclatural notes and an updated checklist in Lepanthes (Orchidaceae, Pleurothallidinae) from Mexico, Phytotaxa 687 (1), pp. 21-64 : 44-45

9. Lepanthes brachystele Salazar & Soto Arenas *

Distribution:—GRO, OAX.

Specimens:— MEXICO. Guerrero: Chilpancingo de los Bravo, km 65 road Casa Verde-Atoyac , collected. 2 September 1972, pressed 28 June 1973, Pollard L-149 ( AMO!) ; Chilpancingo de los Bravo, Parque Ecológico Estatal Omiltemi, 4 July 1985, Salazar 883 ( AMO!), Salazar 884 ( AMO!), Salazar 885 ( AMO!), Salazar 890 ( AMO!) ; General Heliodoro Castillo, 17 August 1984, Soto & Salazar 1194 ( AMO!). Oaxaca: Oaxaca de Juárez, Cerro San Felipe , 20 May 1969, Ofelio sub Pollard L-137 ( AMO!) ; Santa Catarina Ixtepeji, logging road 0.8 mi E of Tuxtepec hwy at km 28.8, 1 January 1972, Pollard L-143 ( AMO!), Pollard L-144 ( AMO!), Pollard L-145 ( AMO!) ; Santa Catarina Ixtepeji, km 18 carretera Oaxaca-Tuxtepec , collected 8 September 1988, pressed 5 June 1991, Salazar el al. 4637 ( AMO!), Salazar el al. 4638, ( AMO!), pressed 25 April 1991, Salazar 4202 el al. ( AMO!) ; Zimatlán de Álvarez, 6.4 km al oeste del aserradero El Tlacuache hacia Teojomulco , collected 5 July 1991, pressed 9 May 1992, Salazar 4639 ( AMO [in spirit]!), pressed 9 May 1992, Salazar 5105 ( AMO!) .

iNaturalist observations:— MEXICO. Oaxaca: Santa Cruz Itundujia , 31 October 2021, Jiménez (https://mexico. inaturalist.org/observations/103116774) ; Putla Villa de Guerrero, 16 June 2011, Hernández-Pérez (https://mexico. inaturalist.org/observations/51918377) .