Lepanthes cingens Luer & R. Escobar 1994 Photo by © Ecuagenera and their Exuadorian Orchid Website

Similar flower not L cingens Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt

Common Name

Flower Size 5/8" [1.5 cm]

Found in Antioquia, Choco and Risaralda states of Colombia on the western cordillera in cloud forests as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte at elevations of 2100 to 1400 meters with an erect ramicaul enveloped by 13 or so lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptic, acute, abruptly narrows below in to the base leaf that blooms in the spring on more than one, erect, 1.2" [3 cm] long, successively single several flowered inflorescence that is shorter than the leaf and held close to the bottom side .

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 #1043 COS 1994 photo fide

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