Lepanthes guanacasensis Luer & R.Escobar 1994 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes Novon 1993
Photos by © Sebastain Moreno and his Flickr Orchid Photo Webpage
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Epidendra Webpage
EARLY 
Common Name The Paramo de Guanacas Lepanthes [A cloud forest in Cauca where the species was discovered]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Cauca department of Colombia in cloud forests at elevations around 3150 to 3380 meters as a small sized, cold growing epiphyte with stout, erect ramicauls enveloped by 8 to 11 ciliate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, acute, shortly acuminate, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on 1 to 2, loose, longer than the leaf, distichous, flexuous, 10 to 10.4" [25 to 26 cm] long including the .8 to 1.2" [2 to 3 cm] long peduncle, successively single, several flowered inflorescence.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orquideología Vol 19 #2 pg 94-98 Luer & Escobar 1994 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXXII Luer 2012 drawing fide; Orchids A Colombian Treasure Vol 3 Ortiz & Uribe 2019 drawing fide;
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