Lepanthes evansiae Luer & Hirtz 1996 SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes 1993 Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

LATE EARLY

Common Name Mary Evans' Lepanthes [ American Co-discoverer of species current]

Flower Size .16" [4 mm]

Found in Bolivar Ecuador at elevations around 1250 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with a slender, erect ramicaul enveloped by 7 to 8, microscopically ciliate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, suffused with purple beneath, ovate, acute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late summer and early fall on a slender, congested, distichous, .92" [2.3 cm] long, successively many flowered inflorescence arising on the back of the leaf and carrying muricate floral bracts.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XIV Luer 1996 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 drawing fide; Flora of Ecuador No 88 Lepanthes and affiliates Dodson & Luer 2011 drawing fide

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