Lepanthes aristata Luer & R.Escobar 1985 Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website

Common Name or Meaning The Spiked Lepanthes [refers to the apex of the leaf]

Flower Size .1" [3mm]

Found in Norte De Santander Colombia in cloud forests at elevations around 2250 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 5 to 13 leapanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, elliptic, apically spiked, rounded and contracted basally into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a successively single flowered inflorescence.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *AOS Bulletin Vol 54 No 5 1985 photo; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994 photo missing spikes on midpetals

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