Lepanthes isosceles Luer & R.Escobar 1984Photo by © Rodrigo Escobar and Epidendra Orchid Photo Webpage

Common Name The Three Equal Sepal Lepanthes

Flower Size .32" [8 mm]

Found in Magdalena Colombia in cloud forests at elevations around 2500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with slender, erect, ramicauls enveloped by 6 to 7, lepanthiform sheaths with microscopically ciliate, dilated ostia and carrying a single, apical, erect, coricaeous, narrowly ovate, acute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a filiform, flaccid, arcuate to pendent, lax, 6.8" [17 cm] long, successively flowered inflorescence arising on top of the leaf

Similar to L rigidigitata but it has a lax, flexuous, 5.6" [14 cm] long, racemose inflorescence and L micellilabia but it has a short, congested racemose inflorescence.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Amer. Orchid Soc. Bull. 53(4): 372. 1984 Luer drawing/photo fide;

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