Lepanthes penicillifera Luer 2009

SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes 1993

Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Webpage

Common Name The Paint Brush Carrying Lepanthes [refers to the shape of the appendix]

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Cauca department of Colombia without collection data with slender, erect, ramicauls enveloped by 4 to 5 microscopically scabrous lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coricaceous, elliptical-ovate, acute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms on a slender, very congested, distichous, .36 to .56" [9 to 14 mm] long including the .24 to .44" [6 to 11 mm] long peduncle, successively several flowered inflorescence arising on the back of the leaf and has oblique, echinate floral bracts.

Synonyms Lepanthes scopulifera Luer 2003

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXXII Luer 2012 drawing fide; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 3 Ortiz & Uribe 2019

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