Lepanthes confusa Ames & C.Schweinf. 1930 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
Photo by © Bogarin and The Epidendra Website
Photo by Franco Pupulin.
Common Name The Confused Lepanthes
Flower Size .1" [3 cm]
Found in Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Ecuador in premontane rain forest to cloud forest and disturbed primary forests at elevations of 55 to 750 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 6, ciliate, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, purple suffused beneath, elliptical, subacute to obtuse, lightly convex, abruptly narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter and summer on a congested, distichous, .1 to .2" [3 to 5 mm] long, successively several flowered, filiform, racemose inflorescence arising beneath the leaf with echinate floral bracts.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XIV. The genus Lepanthes subgenus Lepanthes in Ecuador (Orchidaceae) Luer 1996 drawing fide; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003; Flora of Ecuador No 88 Lepanthes and affiliates Dodson & Luer 2011 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXXII Luer 2012 Luer drawing fide; Orchids A Colombian Treasure Vol 3 Ortiz & Uribe 2019 drawing/photo fide; Orquideas de Farallones de Cali Galindo-Tarazona, Haelterman, Zuluaga Trochez and Sebastian Moreno 2020 photo fide; Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pg 449 Pupulin 2020 photo/drawing fide; CHECKED Type fide
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