Lepanthes caudigera Luer & Hirtz 1998 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes Novon 1993 Photo by © Andreas Kay and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website

Type Drawing Drawing by © Carl Luer and Epidendra Webpage

Common Name The Tail Bearing Lepanthes [refers to the projecting column and lip]

Flower Size .12" [3mm]

Found in Carchi Ecuador at elevations around 2100 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 6 to 7, minutely ciliate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, erect, coriaceous, broadly ovate, obtuse, broadly cuneate to rounded and contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a slender, racemose, congested, distichous, to .2" [5 mm] long, successively few flowered inflorescence arising behind the leaf and has glabrous floral bracts

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidianrum Vol 16 Luer 1998 drawing fide; Flora of Ecuador No 88 Lepanthes and affiliates Dodson & Luer 2011 drawing fide

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