Lepanthes affinis Luer & R.Escobar 1988 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
Photo by © Rudolf Jenny and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Webpage
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
LATER 
Common Name The Similar Lepanthes [refers to this orchids resemblance to Lepanthes dunstervilleorum]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Norte de Santander department of Colombia at elevations around 2250 meters as a miniature to small sized, cold growing epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped by 10 to 22, ciliate, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, erect, coriaceous, elliptical-ovate, acute, acuminate, rounded, abruptly contracted below into the petioalte base leaf that blooms in the later spring on a filiform, congested, 1.4" [3.5 cm] long including the .8" [2 cm] long peduncle, successively several flowered inflorescence
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orquideologia Vol 17 #3 pg 145-148 1988 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXXII Luer 2012 drawing fide; Orchids A Colombian Treasure Vol 3 Ortiz & Uribe 2019 drawing fide/photo hmm;
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