Lepanthes fuchsii Luer 1991

SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Breves SERIES Breves Luer 1993 Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Webpage

Common Name Fuchs' Lepanthes [American Nurseryman in south Florida and Orchid Collector 1900's]

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Bolivia without locational data as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 5 to 6, minutely ciliate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, purple suffused beneath, elliptical, obtuse, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a slender, loose, distichous, flexuous, 2.6" [9 cm] long including the 4.4" [11 cm] long peduncle, successively single, many flowered inflorescence.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXXI Luer 2010 drawing fide;

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