Lepanthes larvina Luer & R. Escobar 1984 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
Photo by © Richard Ashby and hisOrchid Photo Website.
Photo by © Jay Pfahl
Photo by Nigel Carter
Photo by Eric Hunt, Plant grown by Dan Newman of Hanging Gardens.
TYPE Drawing By © Carl Luer
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Common Name The With Larva Lepanthes [refers to the appearance of the appendix]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Antioquia and Choco departments of Colombia at elevations of 1800 to 2500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold 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 in the late spring through early summer on a 1 to few, dense, distichous, .6 to .72" [15 to 18 mm] long including the .4 to .52" [1 to 1.3 cm] long peduncle, successively flowered inflorescence arising from behind the leaf and holding the flowers close to mid leaf.
Similar to L hirpex but it has deeply connate lateral sepals, broader lobes of the petals and an appendix in the sinus of the lip.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *AOS Bulletin Vol 53 #2 Luer & Escobar 1984 photo/drawing fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 2 COS 1991 photo ok; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006 drawing/photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXXII Luer 2012 drawing fide; Orchids A Colombian Treasure Vol 3 Ortiz & Uribe 2019 drawing/photo ok?;
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