Lepanthes lloensis Luer 1983 SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes 1993 Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

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Common Name The Lloa Lepanthes [A Town near Quito in Ecuador]

Flower Size .32" [8 mm]

Found in Ecuador at elevations around 2650 to 3100 meters as a small sized, cold growing epiphyte with a slender, erect ramicaul enveloped by 8 to 18, minutely ciliate-scabrous lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, ovate-oblong, acute, acuminate, rounded to lightly cordate and abruptly contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring and again in the earlier fall on a filiform, extremely congested, distichous, 2" [5 cm] long, successively many flowered inflorescence arising on the back of the leaf.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XIV Luer 1996 drawing fide; Flora of Ecuador No 88 Lepanthes and affiliates Dodson & Luer 2011 drawing fide

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