Lepanthes eumeces Luer 1983 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Breves SERIES Filamentosae Drawing by Carl Luer © and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Long Inflorescence Lepanthes

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Napo Ecuador at elevations around 1000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with an erect, slender ramicaul enveloped by 2 to 3, microscopically ciliate, ribbed lepanthiform sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, obtuse, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on a filiform, progressively lengthening, flexible, loose, lightly flexuous, to 6.8" [17 cm] long, successively 2 to 3, several flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XIV Luer 1996 drawing fide; Flora of Ecuador No 88 Lepanthes and affiliates Dodson & Luer 2011 drawing fide

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