Lepanthes kuijtii Luer & Hirtz 1984 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes Photo by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website

Drawing TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Flower photoPhoto by © Alexander Reynolds and UC Davis Orchid Photo Webpage

Common Name Kuijt's Lepanthes [Canadian Botanist and codiscoverer of species current]

Flower Size .24" [6mm]

Found in Pinchincha Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations around 1650 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with slender, erect, ramicauls enveloped by 7 to 10, minutely ciliate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thinly coricaeous, suffused with purple beneath, ovate, acute, shortly acuminate, rounded and contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a filiform, congested, 1.28" [3 cm] long, successively flowered inflorescence arising on top of the leaf with cilate floral bracts.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Amer. Orchid Soc. Bull. 53(11): 1160 1984 Luer & Hirtz drawing/photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XIV. The genus Lepanthes subgenus Lepanthes in Ecuador (Orchidaceae) Luer 1996 drawing fide; Flora of Ecuador No 88 Lepanthes and affiliates Dodson & Luer 2011 drawing fide

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