Lepanthes pastoensis Schltr. 1920 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes Novon 1993 Photo courtesy of Walter Teague

Another Flower View Photo courtesy of Jim Hamilton Petite Plaisance Orchids.

Another Color Form Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl © .

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Common Name The Pasto Lepanthes [Colombian State]

Flower Size to 1" [to 2.5 cm]

Found in southern Colombia and northern Ecuador as a small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte around 2400 to 2925 meters in elevation that blooms in the late fall through winter.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten II Colombia Schlechter 1920; Beitrage Zur Orchideenkunde Von Colombia 27:43 Schlechter 1924; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 2 COS 1991 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 64 No 10 1995 photo;

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