Lepanthes aeora Luer & Hirtz 1987 SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Elongatae 1993 Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt, plant grown by Dan Newman of Hanging Gardens

Common Name The Swinging Lepanthes [Refers to the appendix of the lip]

Flower Size 3/16" [5 mm]

Found in Ecuador as a very small, cool growing epiphyte at elevations of 1800 to 1850 meters in cloud forests with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 3 to 4 lepanthiform sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute, leaf with the base cuneate into the petiole that blooms in the summer on a congested, 1" [2.5 cm] long, racemose, sequentially flowering inflorescence with a few proportionately large flowers.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XIV Systematics of Draconanthes and Lepanthes Luer 1996 drawing fide; Flora of Ecuador No 88 Lepanthes and affiliates Dodson & Luer 2011 drawing fide

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