Lepanthes nontecta Luer 1983 SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes 1993 Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

LATE EARLY

Common Name The Uncovered Lepanthes [refers to the blades of the lip]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Napo Ecuador at elevations around 450 to 600 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with a slender, erect ramicaul enveloped by 5 to 6, microscopically ciliate lepanthiform sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, purple beneath, ovate, subacute to obtuse, broadly cuneate and contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late summer to earsly fall on a filiform, subdense, .44" [1.1 cm] long, successively few flowered inflorescence arising on the back of the leaf.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XIV Luer 1996 drawing fide; Flora of Ecuador No 88 Lepanthes and affiliates Dodson & Luer 2011 drawing fide

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