Lepanthes ciliicampa Luer & Hirtz 1996 SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes 1993 TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

EARLIER

Common Name The Hairy Catepillar Lepanthes [refers to the long ciliate petals]

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in western Ecuador at elevations around 60 to 900 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with a slender, erect ramicaul enveloped by 6 to 12, minutely ciliate, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, ellipical, acute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the earlier summer on a slender, very congested, distichous, .4" [1 cm] long, successively several flowered inflorescence arising on the back of the leaf and carrying echinate floral bracts.

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

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