Lepanthes debedoutii P.Ortiz 2006

Plant and Flower Photo by © Ramon de Bedout

Side view with column exposed and burned petals Photo by © Jay Pfahl

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Common Name Ramon de Bedout's Lepanthes [Colombian Orchid Enthusiast and co-discoverer of species current]

Flower Size 1/16" [.15 cm]

Found as a miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte in eastern Cuninamarca state of Colombian cloud forests at elevations around 2600 meters in oaktree forest with suberect to erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 4 to 12 minutely pubescent, lepanthiform sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, apiculate, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf and blooms on a longer than the leaf, successively single flowered inflorescence occuring in the spring and autum

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

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