Lepanthes celox Luer & Hirtz 1987 SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes 1993 Photo by Bruno Larsen and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website

TYPE Drawing Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Yacht Like Lepanthes [refers to the appendix shape]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in northwestern Ecuador at elevations around 800 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with a slender, erect ramicaul enveloped by 5 to 6, minutely ciliate, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, purplish beneath, coriaceous, broadly oblong, obtuse, rounded and contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter and spring on a filiform, very congested, distichous, .6" [1.5 cm] long, successively several flowered inflorescence arising on the back of the leaf.

Synonyms

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; Orquideas de Farallones de Cali Galindo-Tarazona, Haelterman, Zuluaga Trochez and Sebastian Moreno 2020 photo fide

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