Lepanthes brenneri Luer 1983 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Breves SERIES Filamentosae TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer © and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name Brenner's Lepanthes [Discoverer of species current]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Pastaza Ecuador at elevations around 750 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with an erect, slender ramicaul enveloped by 2 to 3, minutely ciliate, lepanthiform sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute to apiculate, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on a filiform, loose, subflexuous, to .52" [1.3 cm] long, successively single, 2 to 3 flowered inflorescence.

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

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