Lepanthes cincinnata Luer & R.Escobar 1993 Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website

Common Name or Meaning The Curled Lepanthes [refers to the curled lower sepaline tails]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Valle de Cauca Colombia in cloud forests at elevations around 2200 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped by 5 to 11 lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, tear-drop shaped leaf that blooms in the winter on a distichous, successively single, several flowred inflorescence.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XIV Luer 1996;

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