Lepanthes homotaxis Luer & R.Escobar 1983 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Bilabiatae Drawing by Carl Luer © and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

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Common Name The Of the Same Order Lepanthes [refers to the similarities of the halves of the floral parts]

Flower Size .08" [2 mm]

Found in Ecuador on both sides of the Andes in cloud forests at elevations around 1400 to 2100 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 6 to 9, close, microscopically scabrous, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, elliptical, acute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring through summer on a filiform, subdense, distichous, to 1" [to 2.5 cm] long, successively single, few flowered inflorescence arising on the back of the leaf.

Closely related to L bifalcis but differs from it by its lip attached to the mid column and the more forked petals. It is also close to L homotaxis ut differs from it by the broader leaves that are not thickly coriaceous , the forked petals and the cordate lip connate to the column

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XIV Luer 1996 drawing fide; Flora of Ecuador No 88 Lepanthes and affiliates Dodson & Luer 2011 drawing fide

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