Lepanthes alopex Luer & Hirtz 1996 SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes Photo by © Duane McDowell and his Flickr Orchid Photo website

Lip Detail Photo by Bruno Larsen and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website

Common Name The Fox Like Lepanthes [refers to the long-haired, tailike appendix]

Flower Size .12" [3mm]

Found in southeastern Ecuador at elevations around 1600 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 6 to 8 close, minutely ciliate, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, ovate-elliptic, acute, acuminate, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer through fall on a very congested, distichous, filamentous, 1/2" [1.25 cm] long, successively single, few flowered inflorescence

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XIV Systematics of Draconanthes and Lepanthes Luer 1996 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 drawing fide; Flora of Ecuador No 88 Lepanthes and affiliates Dodson & Luer 2011 drawing fide

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