Lepanthes larvina Luer & R. Escobar 1984 Photo by © Richard Ashby and hisOrchid Photo Website.

Another Flower Photo by © Jay Pfahl

Flower and Leaf Photo courtesy of Nigel Carter

Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt, Plant grown by Dan Newman of Hanging Gardens.

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Common Name The With Larva Lepanthes [refers to the appearance of the appendix]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Colombia at elevations of 1800 to 2500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped completely by 4 to 7, dark colored, close, microscopically scabrous, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical erect, coriaceous, purple suffused, cordate, acute, abruptly narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms on a 1 to few, dense, distichous, 3/4" [18 mm] long, successively flowered inflorescence arising from behind the leaf and holding the flowers close to mid leaf.

Similar to L hirpex

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *AOS Bulletin Vol 53 #2 1984 photo; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 2 COS 1991 photo ok; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006 drawing/photo fide;

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