Lepanthes ectopa Luer 2009 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes Novon 1993
Photo by © Esteben Dominguez Vargas
Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Webpage
Common Name The Strange Lepanthes [refers to the floral parts]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Valle De Cauca department of Colombia at elevations around 2200 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with erect, very slender ramicauls enveloped by 9 to 10, minutely ciliate, lepanthiform sheaths with oblique ostia and carrying a single, apical, thinly coriaceous, erect, purple suffused beneath elliptical, acute, long-acuminate, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a, filiform, congested, distichous, .36" [9 mm] long, successively single, few flowered inflorescence arising on the back of the leaf.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000; Orchids A Colombian Treasure Vol 3 Ortiz & Uribe 2019 photo fide;
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