Lepanthes ligiae Luer & R. Escobar 1991 Photo courtesy of Lourens Grobler ©

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Common Name Ligia's Lepanthes [Mrs. Posada's Lepanthes, current Orchid Nurserywoman]

Flower Size .2" [5mm]

This small sized, warm to cool growing, epiphytic species is found in cloud forests at elevations of 1500 to 2600 meters in western Colombia with erect, ramicauls enveloped by 9 to 10 lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, elliptic, acute, abruptly narrows below into the base leaf that blooms in the spring and summer on several, 1.2" [3 cm] long, successively single, several flowered inflorescence.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 2 COS 1991 photo fide;

Checked type drawing W3Tropicos OK

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