Lepanthes condorensis Luer & Hirtz 1987 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes Novon 1993 Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website

Common Name or Meaning The Cordillera del Condor Lepanthes [southern Ecuadorian Mountains]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in southeastern Ecuador at elevations of 1400 to 2400 meters as a small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with erect, stout ramicauls enveloped by 11 to 18, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, elliptical-ovate, longitudinally furrowed beneath, subacute, the rounded base contracted into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter and spring on a 2.4" [6 cm] long, successively single, several flowered inflorescence arising from behind the leaf.

Checked type W3Tropicos ok

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XIV Luer 1996 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 drawing fide; Flora of Ecuador No 88 Lepanthes and affiliates Dodson & Luer 2011 drawing fide

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