Lepanthes pecunialis Luer 1986 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes Novon 1993

Plant and Flower Photos by © Milan Vágner

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Common Name The Coin-Shaped leaf Lepanthes

Flower Size 1/16" [20 mm]

Found in Ecuador as a miniature to small sized, caespitose epiphyte in citrus trees on low mossy twigs at altitudes around 500 to 2000 meters in wet montane forests with slender, suberect, ramicauls enveloped by 7 to 10 lepanthiform sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect to spreading, thickly coriaceous, often copper in color, broadly ovate to suborbicular, obtuse leaf with the rounded base contracted into a petiole that blooms on the underside of the leaf on a very congested, distichous, long-pedicillate, 1/8" [25 mm] long, successively flowered, racemose inflorescence occuring in the spring.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XIV Systematics of Draconanthes and Lepanthes Luer 1996 drawing fide; Flora of Ecuador No 88 Lepanthes and affiliates Dodson & Luer 2011 drawing fide

Checked type drawing W3Tropicos OK

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