taxonID	type	description	language	source
D3F1E6309ADE5B9185C2AAA3D76FADC2.taxon	description	Figs 1, 2	en	Moreno, Juan Sebastián, Herrera Cobo, Angie Tatiana, Palacio, Rubén Darío, Hazzi, Nicolas A. (2025): Chronicle of a death foretold: Lepanthes nasariana (Orchidaceae, Pleurothallidinae), a newly described high-Andean orchid facing a worst-case climate change scenario. PhytoKeys 266: 219-240, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.266.161410
D3F1E6309ADE5B9185C2AAA3D76FADC2.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. The new species is most similar to Lepanthes mefueensis Luer & R. Escobar, but it can be distinguished mainly by its succulent, oblong-lanceolate leaves (vs. elliptic leaves); transversely bilobed petals with both lobes narrowly triangular, falcate, and a marginal triangular midlobe (vs. lobes narrowly oblong); and the lip with blades narrowly ovate with a filiform and pubescent inflexed appendix (vs. ovate blades and a filiform, reflexed appendix).	en	Moreno, Juan Sebastián, Herrera Cobo, Angie Tatiana, Palacio, Rubén Darío, Hazzi, Nicolas A. (2025): Chronicle of a death foretold: Lepanthes nasariana (Orchidaceae, Pleurothallidinae), a newly described high-Andean orchid facing a worst-case climate change scenario. PhytoKeys 266: 219-240, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.266.161410
D3F1E6309ADE5B9185C2AAA3D76FADC2.taxon	description	Description. Plants small in size, epiphytic, caespitose, up to 4.5 – 5.0 cm tall; roots slender, flexuous, filiform, 0.5 mm in diameter. Ramicauls slender, tight, suberect 18 – 23 mm long, enclosed by 4 – 5 acuminate, furrowed, and microscopically pubescent lepanthiform sheaths, with a dilated, ciliate ostia. Leaves purple abaxially, coriaceous, succulent, oblong-lanceolate, 15.7 – 20.3 × 3.3 – 4.7 mm, apex emarginate with an abaxial apiculum in the middle, base cuneate, contracted into a petiole 2 – 3 mm long. Inflorescence a congested, distichous raceme, 12 – 20 successively many-flowered, up to 18 mm long, including the pseudopeduncle of each multi-flowered coflorescence, held appressed to the abaxial surface of the leaf by a filiform, terete pseudopeduncle, 3 mm long, borne near the apex of the ramicaul; floral bracts purple, conical, acuminate, minutely verruculose, 0.5 – 0.7 mm long; pedicels terete, up to 1 mm long. Ovary terete, costate, sparsely verrucose, up to 0.7 mm long. Flowers with burgundy dorsal sepals with saffron margins, the lateral sepals saffron, slightly tinged with light burgundy along the midvein; petals with a vermilion upper lobe and saffron lower lobe with the apex tinged with light burgundy; lip blades crimson, degrading to saffron towards the apex, column crimson degrading to white near the apex. Dorsal sepal ovate, acuminate, denticulate, apex reflexed, 3 - veined, carinate, 2.6 – 2.7 × 1.4 – 1.5 mm, connate to the lateral sepals for 0.5 mm. Lateral sepals ovate, acuminate, denticulate, oblique, slightly attenuate, 1 - veined, 2.5 – 2.6 × 0.9 – 1.0 mm, connate for 1 mm. Petals transversely bilobed, lobes narrowly triangular, falcate, ciliate, microscopically pubescent, obtuse, 0.5 – 0.6 × 1.4 – 1.6 mm, with a filiform marginal triangular midlobe. Lip bilaminate, microscopically pubescent; blades narrowly ovate, acute, bases rounded, 0.88 – 0.90 × 0.24 – 0.31 mm, supported by cuneate connectives from near the base; body broad, adnate to the base of the column; sinus obtuse, with a filiform, oblong, pubescent, inflexed appendix, emerging from the base of the main structure, concealed in dorsal view and visible only in lateral view. Column terete, dilated, with the stigma bilobed with oblong lobes, 0.9 – 1.0 mm long, anther dorsal, stigma ventral. Anther cap cordate, cucullate, 0.2 mm wide. Pollinia 2, yellow, pyriform, narrowly obovoid, 0.4 mm long.	en	Moreno, Juan Sebastián, Herrera Cobo, Angie Tatiana, Palacio, Rubén Darío, Hazzi, Nicolas A. (2025): Chronicle of a death foretold: Lepanthes nasariana (Orchidaceae, Pleurothallidinae), a newly described high-Andean orchid facing a worst-case climate change scenario. PhytoKeys 266: 219-240, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.266.161410
D3F1E6309ADE5B9185C2AAA3D76FADC2.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The specific epithet nasariana refers to Santiago Nasar, the protagonist of the novel “ Chronicle of a Death Foretold ” by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez. The name was chosen in allusion to the character’s tragic fate — unaware of the threats around him, he is doomed to die prematurely. This mirrors the situation of the newly described species: although it may appear stable today, its extinction is predicted in the near future. The species is expected to undergo a “ foretold death ” due to the increasing frequency and intensity of extreme climatic events, driven by anthropogenic acceleration of climate change. While climate has always fluctuated naturally, it is the unprecedented speed and magnitude of current shifts — caused by human activity — that now pose a critical threat to biodiversity.	en	Moreno, Juan Sebastián, Herrera Cobo, Angie Tatiana, Palacio, Rubén Darío, Hazzi, Nicolas A. (2025): Chronicle of a death foretold: Lepanthes nasariana (Orchidaceae, Pleurothallidinae), a newly described high-Andean orchid facing a worst-case climate change scenario. PhytoKeys 266: 219-240, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.266.161410
