Lepanthes dictydion Luer & Hirtz 1985 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes Novon 1993

Photo by © Ecuagenera and their Orchid Website

Side View of Flower Photo by © Lourens Grobler

Leaf and Flower Photo by © Jean Marc Pallandre and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website

LATE EARLY

Common Name The Little Net Lepanthes [refers to the reticulate leaves]

Flower Size .1" [2 mm]

Found in the eastern lowlands of Ecuador and Peru in cloud forests at elevations 1400 to 1800 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with suberect to erect ramicauls enveloped by 6 to 8, long-ciliate, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, purple reticulated, suborbicular, rounded apically and obtusely apiculate, rounded basally and abruptly contracted into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late winter and early spring on a subdense, behind the leaf, .4" [1 cm] long, racemose, successively several flowered inflorescence

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *AOS Bulletin Feb 1985 Vol 54 pg 160 Luer & Hirtz 1985; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XIV. The genus Lepanthes Luer 1996 drawing fide; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide; Flora of Ecuador No 88 Lepanthes and affiliates Dodson & Luer 2011 drawing fide

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