Lepanthes gossamera Luer & Hirtz 2007

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

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Common Name The Cobweb Lepanthes [refers to the fine sepaline tails]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Morona-Santiago Ecuador at elevations around 2700 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 2, microscopically ciliate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, acute, apiculate, contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a filiform, congested, distichous, to .88 to 1.12" [2.2 to 2.8 cm] long including the .8 to 1" [2 to 2.5 cm] long peduncle, successively single, few flowered inflorescence.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIX Luer 2007 drawing fide;

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