Lepanthes gargoyla Luer & Hirtz 1988 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes Novon 1993 Photo by © Eric Hunt

Another Flower Photo courtesy of Andy's Orchids Copyright © 2002 All rights reserved.

Another Flower Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding.

Another Leaf and Flower Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding.

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Common Name The Gargoyle Lepanthes [named for it's likeness to a gargoyle]

Flower Size 1/4" [.65 cm]

Found in Ecuador in cloud forests as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte at elevations around 900 to 1300 meters with slender, erect, ramicauls enveloped basally by 7 to 11 thin, glabrous, lang-acuminate, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, suberect to spreading, coriaceous, purple suffused, ovate, recurved margins, acute leaf with the cuneate base contracted into the petiole that blooms in the spring on a congested, secund, successively several flowered, to 1 3/4" [4.5 cm] long, racemose inflorescence with oblique floral bracts.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Pleurothallidinarum Vol XIV Systematics of Draconanthes and Lepanthes 1996 drawing ; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 drawing/photo fide; Flora of Ecuador No 88 Lepanthes and affiliates Dodson & Luer 2011 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 86 #7 2017 photo fide;

Checked Type drawing OK

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