@article{Pupulin_Merino_2013, title={<i>Comparettia sotoana</i> (Orchidaceae: Oncidiinae), a new Ecuadorian specieS}, volume={9}, url={https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/lankesteriana/article/view/12075}, DOI={10.15517/lank.v0i0.12075}, abstractNote={<span>A new species of <em>Comparettia, C. sotoana</em>, is described and illustrated from the province of Morona- Santiago, in southeastern Ecuador.<em> Comparettia sotoana</em> is compared with <em>Comparettia langkastii</em>, from which it mainly differs by the laterally flattened leaves, the subumbellate (vs. distichous), several-flowered (vs. 2-flowered) inflorescence, the short, straight sepaline spur (vs. long, curved), and the ovate-subpandurate lip with a cuspidate midlobe (vs. pandurate with a deeply retuse, apiculate midlobe) provided with digitateconical basal processes, uncinate at apex and expanded into rounded knobs (vs. straight, acuminate), and lacking apical calli (present in <em>C. langkastii</em>).</span>}, number={3}, journal={Lankesteriana: International Journal on Orchidology}, author={Pupulin, Franco and Merino, Gilberto}, year={2013}, month={Oct.} }