Lepanthes hastata Luer 1992 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
Photo by © Saul Altamirano A. and The Parque Naciaonal Carrasco, Cochabamba Bolivia, Orquideas del Proyecto Hidroelectrico Ivirizu Website
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Epidendra Webpage
Common Name The Spear Shaped Lepanthes [refers to the ramicaul and leaf]
Flower Size .12" [ mm]
Found in Antioquia department of Colombia in cloud forests at elevations around 1350 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 10 to 12, microscopically ciliate lepanthiform sheaths with dilated ostia and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly ovate, acute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on a filiform, congested, distichous, 1 to 1.12" [2.5 to 2.8 cm] long including the .2 to .32" [5 to 8 mm] long peduncle, successively single, many flowered inflorescence arising on the back of the leaf with minutely subspiculate floral bracts.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Lindleyana 7: 108 Luer 1992; Drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXXI Luer 2010 drawing fide; The Parque Naciaonal Carrasco, Cochabamba Bolivia, Orquideas del Proyecto Hidroelectrico Ivirizu Website 2021 photo fide
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