Lepanthes alticola C.Schweinf. 1942 SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Elongatae 1993
Plant and Flower Photos by © Alexander Hirtz
Another Flower Photo by © Jean Marc Palandre and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
Type Drawing Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the JanyRenz Herbaria Website
Common Name The High Elevation Lepanthes
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia at elevations around 3000 to 4000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with a slender, erect ramicaul enveloped by 3 to 4, shortly ciliate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, acute, narrowly cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on a filiform, loose, flexuous, distichous, to 3.2" [8 cm] long, successively single, many flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms Lepanthes dipteryx Luer & Hirtz 1987
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XIV Luer 1996 drawing fide; Flora of Ecuador No 88 Lepanthes and affiliates Dodson & Luer 2011 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXXI 2010 drawing fide
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