Lepanthes micronyx Luer & R.Escobar 1997 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes Novon 1993
Photo by © Esteban Dominguez Vargas and his Flickr Orchid Photo Webpage
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
LATER 
Common Name The Tiny Claw Lepanthes [refers to the appendix]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Antioquia department of Colombia at elevations around 2700 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with very slender, weak, erect ramicauls enveloped by 12 to 14, microscopically scabrous, tight fitting lepanthiform sheaths with acuminate apices and carrying a single, apical, spreading, thinly coriaceous, narrowly ovate, acute, long-acuminate, cuneate and contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later spring on a filiform, congested, disitchous, .4 to 1" [1 to 2.5 cm] long including the .2 to .8" [5 to 20 mm] long peduncle, successively single, many flowered inflorescence arising on the top of the leaf.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orquideologia VOl 20 #3 1997 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXXII Luer 2012 drawing fide; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 3 Ortiz & Uribe 2019 drawing/photo fide;
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