Lepanthes magnifica Luer 1983 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes Novon 1993>
Photo by Juan Sebastian Moreno and his Flickr Orchid Photo Webpage
Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt, Plant grown by Dan Newman of Hanging Gardens.
Common Name The Grand Lepanthes [Refers to the large plant and flowers]
Flower Size 3/8" [1 cm]
Found in Ecuador in wet cloud forests at elevations of 1450 to 2200 meters as a medium sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with stout, erect ramicauls enveloped by 15 to 19 ciliate, lepanthiform sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, ciliate along veins beneath, ovate, acute, , lightly acuminate leaf with the base rounded to subcordate, contracted into a twisted petiole that blooms on a shorter than the leaf, congested, distichous, 2 3/4" [7 cm] long, filiform, successively single, many single flowered inflorescence occuring in the spring.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XIV Systematics of Draconanthes and Lepanthes Luer 1996 drawing fide; Flora of Ecuador No 88 Lepanthes and affiliates Dodson & Luer 2011 drawing fide; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 3 Ortiz & Uribe 2019 photo fide;
Checked Luer 1996 OK
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