Lepanthes longiacuminata Luer & Hirtz 1998 SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes 1993 Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Long Acuminate Leaf Lepanthes

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in northwestern Ecuador at elevations around 2100 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with a slender, erect ramicaul enveloped by 9 to 13, microscopically ciliate lepanthiform sheaths with acuminate apices and carrying a single, apical, suberect to spreading, thinly coriaceous, broadly ovate, acute, acuminate into a slender, elongate process, rounded and contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a slender, congested, distichous, .8" [2 cm] long, successively several flowered inflorescence arising on the top of the leaf.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVI Luer 1998 drawing fide; Flora of Ecuador No 88 Lepanthes and affiliates Dodson & Luer 2011 drawing fide

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