Lepanthes narcissus Luer & Hirtz 1996 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Bilabiatae
Photos by © Alexander Hirtz
Photo by © Bruno Larsen and his Flickr Orchid Photo Webpage
Photos by © Peter Bryder
Type Drawing Drawing by Carl Luer © and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
THROUGH 
Common Name The Self-Loving ? Lepanthes [Greek God]
Flower Size .12" [3 mm]
Found in Morona-Santiago province of Ecuador at elevations around 1650 to 1900 meters as a miniature to small sized, cool growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 8 to 11, minutely ciliate lepanthiform sheaths with minimally dilated ostia and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, acute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer through fall on a filiform, loose, distichous, to 2" [5 cm] long, successively single, several flowered inflorescence arising on the back of the leaf.
Similar to L inamoena butdiffers in the larger upper lobes and 4 small lower lobes of the petals and the smaller blades of the lip with a much larger triangular appendix located in the sinus of the lip.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XIV Systematics of Draconanthes, Lepanthes subgenus Marsipanthes and subgenus Lepanthes of Ecuador Luer 1996 drawing fide; Flora of Ecuador No 88 Lepanthes and affiliates Dodson & Luer 2011 drawing fide
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