Lepanthes mammillata Luer 1996 SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes 1993 Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

EARLY

Common Name The Nipple Bearing Lepanthes [refers tothe tips of the blades of the lip and the appendix]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Carchi Ecuador at elevations around 2500 meters as a small sized, cold growing epiphyte with a stout, erect ramicaul enveloped by to 22, ciliate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, ovate, acute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the early summer on a very congested, distichous, 2.2 to 2.4" [5.5 to 6 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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