Lepanthes nicolasii Luer & R.Escobar 1997 Photo by Arturo Carrilo
Another Angle Photos courtesy of Danny Lentz ©, plant grown by the Atlanta Botanical Garden
Common Name Nicolas' Lepanthes
Flower Size .2 x .8" [5mm x 2 cm tall]
Found in Antioquia Colombia at elevations around 2000 meters as a small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped by 7 to 11 lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, narrowly elliptic, acute, abruptly narrows below into the base leaf and blooms in the spring on a terminal, [3 cm] long, arching, successively single, several flowered inflorescence
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Orchids of Colombia Vol 5 Luer 1994 photo fide;
Checked type drawing W3Tropicos OK
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