Lepanthes cloesii Luer 1999 SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Elongatae Photo by © Lourens Grobler
Side View of Lip Detail Photo by Bruno Larsen and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
Common Name Cloes' Lepanthes [Belgian collector of species]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Peru at elevations around 2800 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with slender, erect, ramicauls enveloped by 6 to 8, long-ciliate, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, purple suffused beneath, broadly elliptical, obtuse to rounded apically, broadly cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms on a slender, far longer than the leaf, 7.6" [19 cm] long, distantly and successively several flowered inflorescence.
Similar to L agatarum, L chelonionL calocodon, L cymbium and L nautilaus.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVIII. Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1999 drawing fide; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide
Checked type w3 tropicos OK
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
