Lepanthes papyrophylla Rchb.f. 1856 SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes Novon 1993 Photo by © Lourens Grobler

Side View of Flower Photo by © Lourens Grobler

Common Name The Papery Leafed Lepanthes

Flower Size .2" [5mm]

Found in Ecuador on the eastern slopes at elevations around 2150 to 2450 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte with erect, slender, ramicauls enveloped basally by 11 to 16, coarsely ciliate, lepanthiform sheaths with dilated ostia and carrying a single, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, elliptical, acute to subacute apically, rounded below and contracted abruptly into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a slender, behind the leaf, to 1.4" [3.5 cm] long, loose, successively several flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Xenia Orchidaceae Rchb.f 1855; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1959 Drawing has a completely different lip than Dodson and Luer = L biappendiculata; Orchids of Peru Fieldiana Schweinfurth 1970; Orchids of Venezuela ; An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing not!= L biappendiculata; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XIV. Systematics of Lepanthes Luer 1996 drawing close; Flora of Ecuador No 88 Lepanthes and affiliates Dodson & Luer 2011 drawing fide

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