Lepanthes micellilabia Luer & R.Escobar 1994

Drawing Photo by © Rodrigo Escobar and Carl Luer Epidendra Webpage

Common Name The Smallest Lip Lepanthes

Flower Size .16" [4mm]

Found in Antioquia Colombia in cloud forests at elevations around 2400 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with slender, erect, enveloped by 5 to 6, microscopically ciliate, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, ovate, acute, rounded and contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on a slender, congested, distichous, successively many flowered inflorescence arising on top of the leaf and has acute, lightly muricate floral bracts.

Similar to L rigidigitata but it has a lax, flexuous, 5.6" [14 cm] long, racemose inflorescence and L isoceles but it has a long pendent racemose inflorescence

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orquideología 19(2): 101. 1994 Luer & Escobar drawing fide

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