Lepanthes pachoi Luer & R. Escobar 1994
Photo by © Lourens Grobler
Photo by Eric Hunt, plant grown by the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers.
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer.
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Common Name Pacho's Lepanthes [Mr Lopez, Colombian nurseryman 20th cen]
Flower Size
Found in Antioquia department of Colombia near Medellin as a small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte at elevations of 2500 meters with slender, erect, ramicauls enveloped by 12 or so lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptic, acute, abruptly narrows below into the base leaf that blooms in the winter on a few, terminal ,1" [2.5 cm] long, successively single, several flowered inflorescence.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orquideologia Vol 19 #2 1994 drawing/photo fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994 matches here fide; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 3 Ortiz & Uribe 2019 drawing/photo fide;
Checked Type drawing W3Tropicos not conclusive
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