Lepanthes nematodes Luer & R.Escobar 1991 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
Photos by © Sebastian Moreno and his Flikr Orchid Photo Webpage
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Epidendra Webpage
Common Name The Filamentous Lepanthes [refers to the threadlike petals]
Flower Size .08" [2 mm]
Found in Valle de Cauca department of Colombia and Carchi province of Ecuador at elevartions around 2100 to 2200 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 8 to 9, microscopically ciliate-scabrous, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, spreading, coriaceous, ovate, acute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a slender, congested, to .4 to .68" [1 to 1.7 cm] long including the .12 to .4" [3 to 10 mm] long peduncle, successively several flowered inflorescence arising on top of the leaf.
"This little species is characterized by minute, yellow flowers borne on top of a small, horizontal leaf; entire, ovate sepals; tiny, filamentous petals; and an erect, cylindrical column embraced by the lobes of a shorter lip." Luer & Escobar 1991
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Orquideologia 18[1]: 66 Luer & R.Escobar 1991 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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