Lepanthes obovata Luer & R.Escobar 1984 Photo by © Ron Parsons and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website

Common Name The Obovate Lepanthes [refers to the leaves]

Flower Size

Found in Antioquia Colombia at elevations around 1650 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 14 to 16, cornucopiate, long cilate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, obovate, obtuse, abruptly acuminate, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on a filiform, congested, flexuous, to 1.6" [to 4 cm] long, laxly, successively flowered inflorescence asrising on top of the leaf and has ciliate floral bracts.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *AOS Bulletin Vol 53 823 Luer Escobar 1984 photo/drawing fide;

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