Lepanthes imbricans Luer & R. Escobar 1999 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes Novon 1993
Opening flowers Photos byEric Hunt
Photo by © Jay Pfahl
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name The Roofing Tile Lepanthes [refers to the petals overlapping]
Flower Size .2" [5mm]
Found in Cauca department of Colombia as a miniature to small sized epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped by 6 to 10 lepanthiform sheaths with the dilated margins of the ostia microscopically ciliate and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, obtuse, shortly acuminate, rounded and contracted below into the base leaf that in the spring on a filiform, loose, 2.6 to 3" [6.5 to 7.5 cm] long including the .6 to 1" [1.5 to 2.5 cm] long peduncle, successively few, several flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Checked to type drawing W3Tropicos OK; *Orquideologia Vol 21 #2 1999 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 12 2003 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 73 No 1 2004 photo; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXXII Luer 2012 drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 83 #3 2019 photo fide; Orchids A Colombian Treasure Vol 3 Ortiz & Uribe 2019 drawing/photo fide;
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