Lepanthes binaria Luer & Hirtz 1987 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes Novon 1993

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Common Name The Two Part Lepanthes [Refers to the bilobed petals]

Flower Size .15" [3mm]

Found in Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations around 3100 to 3500 meters as a miniature to small sized, cold growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 6 to 14, dark brown, microscopically ciliate-scabrous lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, purple suffused beneath, oblong, obtuse, abruptly acuminate, the rounded base contracted below into a petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter and spring on a very congested, filiform, 3/4" [2.2 cm] long, successively many flowered, racemose inflorescence arising on concave back surface of the leaf and has oblique floral bracts.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XIV Systematics of Draconanthes and Lepanthes Luer 1996 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 drawing fide; Flora of Ecuador No 88 Lepanthes and affiliates Dodson & Luer 2011 drawing fide

Checked Luer OK

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