Lepanthes nycteris Luer & R. Vásquez 1983 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes Novon 1993 Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt.

Side View of Flower Photo by © Joel McNeal

Common Name or Meaning

Flower Size 2/5" [1 cm] wide, 1" [2.5 cm] tall

Found in Cochabamba State, Bolivia and Peru as a miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte in cloud forests around 1750 meters with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 6 to 8 lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, ovate, acute leaf and blooms on a thin, to 8" [to 20 cm] long, successively several, single flowered inflorescence arising on the top of the leaf.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchdis of Bolivia Vol 1 Vasquez & Ibisch 2000 drawing/photo fide; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidnarum Vol XXXI luer 2010 Drawing fide;

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