Lepanthes ophelma Luer & R. Escobar 1985 Photo courtesy of Walter Teague

Another Flower Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt ©.

Common Name The Broom Lepantes [refers to the appearance of the appendix]

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Colombia at elevations of 2400 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 6 to 7 lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, narrowly elliptic, acute, abruptly narrows below into the petiolate base leaf and blooms in the summer on a terminal, 1.6" [4 cm] long, successively single several flowered inflorescence holding the flower just off the leaf .

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *AOS Bulletin Vol 54 No 6 1985 photo fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 2 COS 1991 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 62 No 10 1993 photo; Checked type drawing W3 Tropicos OK

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