Lepanthes meganthera Luer & Hirtz 1987 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Breves SERIES Breves Luer 1993 Drawing by Carl Luer © and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Large Anther Lepanthes

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Ecuador at elevations around 1400 to 2450 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with an erect, slender ramicaul enveloped by 7 to 8, coarsely ciliate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, purple veined, ovate, subacute, rounded below into the contracted petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer and fall on a, filiform, very congested, to .32" [8 mm] long, successively single, several 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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