Lepanthes caudata Luer & R.Escobar, Amer. 1984 SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Elongatae 1993
TYPE Photo by Rodrigo Escobar/TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Photo by © Bruno Larsen and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
LATER 
EARLY
Common Name The Tailed Lepanthes [refers to the sepals]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in southern Colombia and northern Ecuador in scrubby cloud forests at elevations of 2750 to 3050 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with a slender, erect ramicaul enveloped by 3 to 5, minutely ciliate, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, obtuse, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later summer and early fall on a filiform, loose, flexible, flexuous, to 4.4" [11 cm] long, successively single to 2, several flowered inflorescence.
Similar to , L floresii, L jimburae, L paradoxa, L synema, and L vermicularis.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *AOS Bulletin Vol 53 No 3 1984 drawing/photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XIV Luer 1996 drawing fide; Flora of Ecuador No 88 Lepanthes and affiliates Dodson & Luer 2011 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXXII Luer 2012 Luer drawing fide; Orchids A Colombian Treasure Vol 3 Ortiz & Uribe 2019 photo fide;
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