Lepanthes escifera Luer & R.Escobar 1984 Photo by © Ecuagenera Orchid Webpage

Common Name The Bait-Bearing Lepanthes [refers tothe pedunculated appendix]

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Antioquia Colombia in montane cloud forests at elevations around 2050 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with suberect to transverse, very slender ramicauls enveloped by 6 to 11, microscopically scabrous, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, spreading to pendent, coriaceous, purple beneath, ovate, acute, long-acuminate, rounded and abruptly contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a filiform, very congested, distichous, to .1" [to 2.5 mm] long, single successively flowered inflorescence arising on top of the leaf

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *AOS Bulletin Vol 53 No 1 1984 Luer drawing/photo okish

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