Lepanthes gelata Luer & R.Escobar 1997 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
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LATER 
Common Name The Congealed Lepanthes [refers to the gelatinous appearance of the body of the lip]
Flower Size .12" [3 mm]
Found in Risaralda department of Colombia at elevations around 2400 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with very slender, suberect to erect, ramicauls enveloped by 10 to 18 microscopically ciliate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, suberect to spreading, thin, ovate, acute to subacute, rounded to cuneate and contracted below into the base leaf that blooms in the later spring on a filiform, very congested, subsecund, to .32 to .56" [8 to 14 mm] long including the .12 to .36" [3 to 9 mm] long peduncle, successively many flowered inflorescence arising on top of the leaf.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orquideologia Vol 20 #3 pg 295 Luer & Escobar 1997 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXXII Luer 2012 drawing fide; Orchids A Colombian Treasure Vol 3 Ortiz & Uribe 2019 drawing/photo fide;
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