Lepanthes fiskei Luer 1989 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes Novon 1993 Photo courtesy of Danny Lentz Copyright ©
Another Flower Photo courtesy of Weyman Bussey Copyright ©
Common Name or Meaning Fiske's Lepanthes [American Botanist late 1900's]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in southeastern Ecuador at elevations around 500 to 1000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with erect, suberect to horizontal, slender ramicauls enveloped by 7 to 14 lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, pubescent, suffused with purple, elliptical, acute, revolute marginally, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a congested, secund, successively several flowered, .3" [7mm] long, racemose inflorescence arising on top of the leaf. This species forms keikis and is easy to grow.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 64 No 10 1995 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XIV Systematics of Draconanthes and Lepanthes 1996 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 drawing/photo fide; Flora of Ecuador No 88 Lepanthes and affiliates Dodson & Luer 2011 drawing fide
Checked type drawing on W3Tropicos OK
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