Epidendrum sholletiae Hágsater, L.Valenz. & J.Duarte
, Icon. Orchid. 17(2): t. 1797 (2020).- IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
- urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77218387-1
- Publication
- Icones Orchidacearum. Mexico City
- Collation
- 17(2): t. 1797
- Date of Publication
- 11 May 2020
- Family as entered in IPNI
- Orchidaceae
Type Information
- Collector Team
- Luis Valenzuela Gamarra, J.Flores & R.Zehnder 29352
- Locality
- Pasco: Prov. Oxapampa, Distr. Oxapampa; sector Chacos, Bosque el Sho'Llet – Mirador la Princesa, 2639 m
- Collection Date
- 5 Dec 2015
- Type Herbaria
- holotype HOXA
- Distribution Of Types
- Peru (Western South America, Southern America)
Remarks
The specific epithet honours Sho'Llet, a beautiful Yánesha princess who, according to legend, lived in Oso'pen, the cloud forest, and who however was without sentiments and could not cry. Once while walking in the sacred mountain she was bitten by a poisonous snake. A young Yánesha warrior by the name Tze Zil rescued her while hunting, extracted the poison and cared for her until she recovered. He proposed marriage but she did not accept. The warrior died in a battle and in his last sigh he called her name. Sho'Llet wept for the first time and filled the seven lakes in the forest. The type specimen was collected in that forest, near Oxapampa.