Lepanthes nanegalensis Rchb.f. 1876 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes Novon 1993 Photo by Morley Read and His Nature Photo website

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Common Name The Nanegal Lepanthes [A town In Ecuador]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Colombia and Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations around 2500 to 3100 meters as a small to medium sized, cold growing epiphyte, terrestrial or lithophtye with an erect, slender to stout ramicaul enveloped by 10 to 15, microscopically ciliate-scabrous, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, elliptic-ovate, acute to subacute, acuminate, cuneate to rounded below into the contracted, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late winter through summer on a loose, distichous, slightly flexuous, progressively lengthening, to 16" [to 40 cm] long, racemose, successively 2 to 3, becoming many flowered inflorescence.

CAUTION I am not convinced that this is a good dtermination so please use with caution. petals and lip wrong

Synonyms Lepanthes macropoda Schltr. 1921; Lepanthes rhombipetala Schltr. 1920;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten II Colombia Schlechter 1920 as L rhombipatala; Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten III Ecuador Schlechter 1921 as L macropoda; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994 as L rhombipetala photo not; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XIV Luer 1996 drawing fide; Flora of Ecuador No 88 Lepanthes and affiliates Dodson & Luer 2011 drawing hmm

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