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

LATE EARLY

Common Name The Large Eared Lepanthes [refers to the lobes of the lip]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in southern Ecuador in cold cloud forests at elevations around 2750 to 3300 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with an erect, slender ramicaul enveloped by 4 to 8, minutely ciliate, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, oblong-elliptical, acute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late summer and early fall on a filiform, flexuous, loose, to 2" [5 cm] long, successively single, few flowered inflorescence.

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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