Lepanthes equicalceolata Luer & R.Escobar 1993 SUBGENUS Marsipanthes Photo by © Pieter C. Brouwer and his Nature Photo Website

Another Flower Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website

Common Name or Meaning The Little Horse Shoe Lepanthes [refers to the lip]

Flower Size .2" [6mm]

Found in Colombia in cloud forests at elevations around 2000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 7 to 8, minutely ciliate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a subdense, secund, 1.2" [3 cm] long, successively several flowered, racemose, inflorescence that is longer than the leaf and the floral bracts are slightly muricate

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XIV Luer 1996 drawing fide;

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