
Echinosepala expolita
Echinosepala expolita Pupulin & Belfort, Lankesteriana 17(2): 294. 2017.
Type: Costa Rica. Alajuela: San Ramón, Piedades, Piedades Norte, road to Bajo La Paz, ca. km 3, along the Río San Pedro, 1300 m. 19 February 2008. F. Pupulin 7030, R.L. Dressler & A.P. Karremans (holotype: JBL; isotypes: JBL; LCDP voucher).
Etymology: From the Latin expolitus, “shining, glossy”, in allusion to the glossy apex of the lip in the fresh flowers with exudate.
Echinosepala expolita is distinguished by the inflorescence that may be produced both at the apex and lower nodes of the ramicaul, the glabrous, inflated sheaths that cover the stem, the linear-elliptic leaves, the lanate-hirsute ovary, the sepals >15 mm long, and the tomentose abaxial indumentum of the sepals.