Lepanthes spelynx Luer & R.Escobar 1985

Another Flower Photo by Jay Pfahl ©

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Common Name The Cave-Like Lepanthes [refers to the deep cavity in the body of the lip]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Norte de Santander Colombia in cloud forests at elevations around 2700 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with erect to suberect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 10 to 15 ciliate, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, purple beneath, coriaceous, narrowly ovate, acute, acuminate, rounded base contracted into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a few, congested, disitichous, .8" [2 cm] long, successively many flowered, racemose inflorescence arising either above or below the leaf.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *AOS Bulletin Vol 54 No 5 1985 photo; Native Orchids of Colombia Vol 5 Luer 1994 photo fide;

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