{"id":38583,"date":"2021-08-28T19:40:20","date_gmt":"2021-08-29T03:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=38583"},"modified":"2021-09-01T08:04:18","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T16:04:18","slug":"three-new-orchid-species-discovered-in-ecuador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/28\/three-new-orchid-species-discovered-in-ecuador\/","title":{"rendered":"Three New Orchid Species Discovered in Ecuador"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many orchid species are scientifically discovered each year. For example, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sci-news.com\/biology\/three-new-lepanthes-species-ecuador-09963.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">botanists have recently named three new Lepanthes from the Ecuadorean Andes<\/a>, one of the richest orchid habitats on the planet. Lepanthes is a genus of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/17\/pleurothallids\/\">pleurothallids<\/a> with over 1000 species. They&#8217;re miniatures with tiny but colorful flowers. The plants have been named <em>Lepanthes oro-lojaensis<\/em>, <em>Lepanthes microprosartima<\/em>, and <em>Lepanthes caranqui<\/em>. The scientists asserted that &#8220;They are proof that Ecuador \u2014 one of the world\u2019s megadiverse countries \u2014 hides much more biodiversity waiting to be explored.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many orchid species are scientifically discovered each year. For example, botanists have recently named three new Lepanthes from the Ecuadorean Andes, one of the richest orchid habitats on the planet. Lepanthes is a genus of pleurothallids with over 1000 species. They&#8217;re miniatures with tiny but colorful flowers. The plants have been named Lepanthes oro-lojaensis, Lepanthes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-mini-orchids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38583"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38645,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38583\/revisions\/38645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}