Lepanthes llipiensis Luer 1992 SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes 1993 Drawing by © Johan Hermans

TYPE DrawingDrawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Webpage

Common Name The Alto Llipi Lepanthes [refers to the orchids discovery location]

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in La Paz Bolivia at elevations around 1350 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 6 to 8, microscopically ciliate lepanthiform sheaths with dilated ostia and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, ovate, acute, broadly rounded and contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on a filiform, congested, distichous, .32" [8 mm] long including the .16 to .2" [4 to 5 mm] long peduncle, successively single, several flowered inflorescence arising on the back of the leaf and has minutely subspiculate floral bracts

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 64 #10 1995 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXXI Luer 2010 drawing fide;

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