Lepanthes gloris Luer & Hirtz 1998 SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes 1993 Drawing by Carl Luer and Epidendra Orchid Webpage

Common Name The Sister-In Law Lepanthes [refers to its close similarity to L generi]

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Carchi Ecuador at elevations around 2100 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with very slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 10 to 11, minutely ciliate, lepanthiform sheaths with acuminate ostia and carrying a single, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, purple suffused, ovate, acute, acuminate, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a slender, congested, distichous, 1.2" [3 cm] long, successively many flowered inflorescence arising on the top of the leaf with glaberous floral bracts.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVI Luer 1998 Drawing fide; Flora of Ecuador No 88 Lepanthes and affiliates Dodson & Luer 2011 drawing fide

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