Lepanthes aures-asini Luer & R.Escobar 1984 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes Original Drawing By © Padre Pedro Ortiz and conserved in conservan en el Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana

Common Name The Donkey Eared Lepanthes

Flower Size .1" [3mm]

Found in Antioquia Colombia at elevations of 2570 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with erect, slender, ramicauls enveloped by 4 to 5 close, microscopically ciliate, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, erect, thickly coriaceous to semiterete, very narrowly ovate, acute, gradually cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a dense, distichous, 1" [2.5 cm] long, successively several, one to two flowered at a time inflorescence

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *American Orchid Society Bulletin Vol 53 No 2 1984; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994 photo fide;

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