Lepanthes caudatisepala C.Schweinf. 1942 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes Novon 1993

Leaf and Flower Photos by © Patrick & Martine Cloes and their Pleurothallid Webpage

Common Name The Caudate Sepal Lepanthes

Flower Size .2" [5mm]

Found in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia in elfin cloud forests at elevations around 2450 to 2800 meters as a to medium sized, cold growing epiphyte with erect, stout ramicauls enveloped completely by 5 to 9 lepanthiform sheaths with dilated ostia and carrying a single, apical, elliptic to oblong-elliptic, rather abruptly long acuminate and minutely tridenticulate apically, 3 nerved, broadly cuneate below into the short, channeled petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter and spring on 1 to 2, filiform, arcuate, shorter to equalling the leaf in length, to 4.4" [11 cm] long, successively single, few to many flowered, racmose inflorescence

Synonyms Lepanthes profusa Luer & Hirtz 1990

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Peru Schweinfurth 1958 drawing; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 as L profusa photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XIV Luer 1996 drawing; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 drawing ok; Flora of Ecuador No 88 Lepanthes and affiliates Dodson & Luer 2011 drawing fide; Flora of Ecuador No 88 Lepanthes and affiliates Dodson & Luer 2011 as L profusa drawing fide

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