Lepanthes escobariana Garay 1969

Flower Closeup Photos by © Jay Pfahl

Plant and Flower Photo by © Milan Vagner

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Common Name Escobar's Lepanthes [Colombian Orchid Enthusiast 20th cen]

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm] long 3/5" [1.5 cm] wide

A medium sized, Colombian cloud forest epiphyte that grows cool to cold with erect ramicauls carrying a single, apical, ovate to linear-lanceolate, acuminate leaf that blooms in the spring on 1 to several, shorter than the leaf, long, slender, successively few flowered inflorescence.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orquideologia Vol 12 3/4 1977/8; AOS Bulletin Vol 52 No 12 1983 photo; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 2 COS 1991 photo fide;

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