Lepanthes jamboeensis Luer & Hirtz 1996 SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes 1993 Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

EARLY

Common Name The Rio Jamboe Lepanthes [A river in Ecuador]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in southeastern Ecuador at elevations around 1550 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with a slender, erect ramicaul enveloped by 9 to 13, ciliate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, ovate, acute to acuminate,rounded or subcordate and abruptly contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the early summer on a filiform, congested, distichous, 1.2" [3 cm] long, successively several flowered inflorescence arising on the back of the leaf.

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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