Lepanthes osiris Luer & R.Escobar 1994 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Breves SERIES Breves Luer 1993

TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Webpage

Common Name The Osiris Lepanthes [refers to the horn-like petals reminiscent of bull's horns that commonly adorn the headress of the Egyptian God Osiris]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Cauca department of Colombia in cloud forests at elevations around 3380 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with erect, stout, prolific ramicauls enveloped by 5 to 7, minutely ciliate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, acute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a very loose, strict, 11.2 to 11.6" [28 to 29 cm] long including the 1.2 to 1.6" [3 to 4 cm] long peduncle, successively single, several flowered inflorescence arising on the top of the leaf with oblique floral bracts.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orquideologia Vol 19 #2 pg 103 Luer & Escobar 1994; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXXII Luer 2012 drawing fide; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 3 Ortiz & Uribe 2019 drawing fide;

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