Lepanthes jayandella Luer 1996 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes
Photo by © Joel McNeal and his P-Base Photo Site
Photo by © Kazutoshi Moriya and the Peacewood Orchid Website
Common Name The J & L Lepanthes [refers to J & L Orchids an American orchid nursery]
Flower Size .15" [3mm]
Found in Ecuador without location as a mini-miniature sized epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 4 to 5 minutely ciliate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, ovate, subacute, the broadly cuneate base contracted below into a petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a congested, distichous, filiform, .6" [1.5 cm] long, successively several flowered, racemose inflorescence arising on the back side of the leaf.
Disitinguished by the minute habit with a short inflorescence on the back of the leaf with rosy tan, acute sepals and the lobes of the yellow petals are oblong with purple tips and the blades of the lip are narrowly ovate. The appendix is merely a minute, cellular process.
CAUTION these photos are absolutely incorrect, they are not even close to the type drawing, I am awaiting the proper photos from J&L Orchids so please ignore these photos. These photos are of the plant that J&L Orchids has been selling as L jayandella but it is incorrect. I am trying to figure out what it is as well but as yet no luck
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XIV Systematics of Draconanthes and Lepanthes Luer 1996 drawing not; Flora of Ecuador No 88 Lepanthes and affiliates Dodson & Luer 2011 drawing not
Checked Luer OK
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