Lepanthes phrixothrix Luer & Hirtz 1993 SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Elongatae 1993 Photo by © Duane McDowell and his Flickr Photo Website

Another View Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website

EARLY

Common Name or Meaning The Bristly Haired Lepanthes

Flower Size .1" [2 mm]

Found in southeastern Ecuador in cloud forests on the Cordillera del Condor at elevations aound 1650 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 5 to 8, densely and coarsly long-ciliate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, suborbicular, obtuse to rounded, rounded below and contracted into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring and early summer on an arching, slender, looose, to 2" [to 5 cm] long, successively many flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms

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

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