Lepanthes conchilabia Luer & Hirtz 1998 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Breves SERIES Breves Luer 1993 TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer © and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Ear Like Lip Lepanthes

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Imbabura province of Ecuador at elevations around 3500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 6 to 7, close, lepanthiform sheaths with microscopically scabrous ribs and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, acute, more or less suffused with purple beneath, narrowly cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on a slender, lax, to 1" [2.5 cm] long, successively single, several flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidianrum Vol XVI Luer 1998 drawing fide; Flora of Ecuador No 88 Lepanthes and affiliates Dodson & Luer 2011 drawing fide

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