Lepanthes cyrtostele Luer & Hirtz 1998 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Breves
Photos by © Andreas Kaye and his Flickr Orchid Photo Webpage
Photos by © Alexander Hirtz
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and Epidendra Webpage
Common Name The Bent Column Lepanthes
Flower Size .12" [3mm]
Found in Valle de Cauca department of Colombia and Carchi and Imbabura provinces of Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations around 3000 to 3300 meters as a small sized, cold growing epiphyte with erect, stout ramicauls enveloped by 10 to 14, grey, ribbed, lepanthiform sheaths with oblique non-dilated ostia and carrying a single, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical-ovate, acute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter through summer on a slender, sublax, racemose, distichous, to 3.4" [8.5 cm] long, successively 2, many flowered inflorescence arising behind the leaf with narrowly infunbibular floral bracts.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVI Luer 1998 drawing fide; Flora of Ecuador No 88 Lepanthes and affiliates Dodson & Luer 2011 drawing fide; Orchids A Colombian Treasure Vol 3 Ortiz & Uribe 2019 photo fide; Orquideas de Farallones de Cali Galindo-Tarazona, Haelterman, Zuluaga Trochez and Sebastian Moreno 2020 photo fide
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