Lepanthes panope Luer & R.Escobar 1985 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes Novon 1993

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Common Name or Meaning The Clam [Genus Panope] Lepanthes [refers to the appearance of the blades of the lip and column]

Flower Size 1/4" [.6 mm]

Found in Norte de Santander Colombia in cloud forests at elevations of 2100 as a small to medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 15 to 20 minutely ciliate, leapanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, ovate, acute, acuminate, basally rounded and contracted into the twisted petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring and summer on a beneath the leaf, filiform, to 1 3/4" [to 4.8 cm] long, congested, distichous successively single flowered, racemose inflorescence

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *AOS Bulletin Vol 54 No 3 Luer & Escobar 1985 photo/drawing; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 2 COS 1991 photo fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994 photo fide

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