Lepanthes alcicornis Luer & R.Escobar 1984

SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes

Photo by © Sebastian Vieira and his Flickr Orchid Photo website

Common Name The Elk Antlered Lepanthes

Flower Size .08" [2mm]

Found in Antioquia department of Colombia at elevations around 2300 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 10 to 12 lepanthiform sheaths with dilated, short ciliate ostia and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, more or less suffused with red, ovate, acute, acuminate, cuneate and contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that and blooms in the winter through spring on a congested, distichous, filiform, 2.2" [5.5 cm] long, successively many flowered inflorescence arising on top of the leaf.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *AOS Bulletin Vol 53 No 4 1984 pg 368 photo/drawing fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXXII 2012 drawing fide; Orchids A Colombian Treasure Vol 3 Ortiz & Uribe 2019 photo fide;

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