Lepanthes dicycla Luer & Hirtz 2007 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes Novon 1993 drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Webpage

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Common Name The Two Circle Lepanthes [refers to upper lobes of the sepals]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Morona-Santiago Ecuador at elevations around 1000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped by 7 to 8, lepanthiform sheaths with minutely ciliate ribs and margins and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute to obtuse, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on a filiform, congested, distichous, 1.04 to 1.2" [2.6 to 3 cm] long, including the .24 to .4" [.6 to 1 cm] long peduncle, successively single, several flowered inflorescence arising on the back or top of the leaf.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIX Luer 2007 drawing fide;

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