Lepanthes pentoxys Luer 1983 SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Mucronatae 1996

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Common Name The Five Pointed Lepanthes [refers to the 5 lobed petals]

Flower Size .15" [3mm]

Found in Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations of 2000 to 2300 meters as a miniature to small sized epiphyte with slender, erect to suberect ramicauls enveloped by 10 to 18 minutely scabrous lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, purple beneath, ovate, long-acuminate apically, the rounded to obtuse base contracted below into a petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring and summer on an extremely congested, secund, slender, 2.4" [6 cm] long, successively many flowered, racemose inflorescence arising on the back side of the leaf.

CAUTION The picture angle does no allow for a positive ID so please use with caution

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 Luer OK

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