Lepanthes forceps Luer & R.Escobar 1984

Side View Of Flower Photo by Orchidées en Nord S.F.O. Section Nord Website

Another Flower Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website

Common Name or Meaning The Pliers-Like Lepanthes

Flower Size

Found in Norte de Santander and Meta Colombia at elevations around 1700 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 4 to 6, close, minutely ciliate, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, purple suffused beneath, broadly ovate to cordate-obtuse to rounded apically, broadly cuneate to cordate, contacted into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a dense, distichous, .2" [5 mm] long, successively many flowered inflorescence arising from behind the leaf

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *AOS Bulletin Vol 53 No 2 1984 photo; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994 photo fide

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