Lepanthes exogena Luer & Hirtz 1993 SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Elongatae 1993

Photo by © Lou Jost

TYPE Drawing Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

LATER EARLY

Common Name The Outside Appendix Lepanthes

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Zamora Chinchipe province of Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations of 2450 to 2700 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with a slender, erect ramicaul enveloped by 5 to 8 lepanthiform sheaths with conspicuously dilated, ciliate ostia and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, broadly ovate, subacute to obtuse, rounded and contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later summer and early fall on a filiform, loose, distichous, flexuous, to 5.4" [13.5 cm] long, successively single, many flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XIV Luer 1996 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 as L extrinseca not photo fide; Flora of Ecuador No 88 Lepanthes and affiliates Dodson & Luer 2011 drawing fide

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