Lepanthes hydrae Luer & L.Jost 1999 >

SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes 1993

Close up of appendix notice hydra like growth at bottom right hence the name Photo by © Lou Jost and Epidendra Orchid Photo Webpage

Common Name The Hydra Lepanthes [a genus of minute, hydrozoan polyps]

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Tungurahua Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations around 2700 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with slender, erect, ramicauls enveloped by 6 to 7, minutely ciliate, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coricaeous, elliptical, acute, acuminate, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on a slender, distichous, congested, 1.4" [3.5 cm] long, successively many flowered inflorescence arising from behind the leaf

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidianrum Vol XVIII Luer 1999 drawing/photo fide; Flora of Ecuador No 88 Lepanthes and affiliates Dodson & Luer 2011 drawing fide

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------