Lepanthes flexuosa 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 Flexuous Lepanthes [refers to the inflorescence]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in southeastern Ecuador on the eastern slopes of the Andes at elevations around 2100 to 3300 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with an erect to suberect, stout ramicaul enveloped by 3 to 4, scabrous lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, sometimes purple beneath, elliptical, obtuse, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a comparatively stout, progressively lengthening, flexuous, to 3.6" [9 cm] long, successively several flowered inflorescence with echinate floral bracts.

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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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