Lepanthes discolor Luer & R. Escobar 1988 Photo courtesy of Lisa Thoerle

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Common Name The Different Colored Lepanthes

Flower Size 5/16" [.75 cm]

Found in Colombia at 2400 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with erect, ramicauls enveloped by 6 lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptic, acute, gradually narrows below into the base leaf that blooms in the late summer on a 3/4" to 1" [2 to 2.5 cm] long, successively single flowered inflorescence holding the flower just beyond the leaf..

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Orchids of Colombia Vol 5 Luer 1994 photos ok;

Checks out with type on W3Tropicos

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