Lepanthes angulata Luer & Hirtz 1996 SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes Photo by © Jay Pfahl

Plant and Flower Photo by © Arturo Carrillo

Drawing TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Angled Lepanthes [refers to the outer margins of the petals]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Cotopaxi Ecuador at elevations around 2000 to 2200 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with a slender, erect ramicaul enveloped by 5 shortly spiculate, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, suffused with purple beneath, boadly ovate, obtuse, rounded and cordate, contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer and fall on a slnder, erect, congested, .4" [1 cm] long, successively several flowered inflorescence arising on the back of the leaf.

Synonyms

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

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