Lepanthes pinnatula Luer & R.Escobar 1997 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Breves SERIES Breves Luer 1993
Photos by © Esteban Dominguez Vargas and his Flickr Orchid Photo Webpage
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Epidendra Webpage
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Common Name The Little Feather Lepanthes [refers to the appendix]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Antioquia department of Colombia at elevations of 2680 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with stout, erect, ramicauls enveloped by 6 to 7, minutely ciliate lepanthiform sheaths with dilated, acuminate ostia and carrying a single, apical, erect, coricaceous, margined, purple suffused beneath, ovate, subacute, cuneate and contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later spring on a filiform, lax, .32 to .4" [8 to 10 mm] long including the .2 to .28" [5 to 7 mm] long peduncle, successively 2 to 3 flowered inflorescence arising on the back of the leaf.
L pinnatula could be confused with the lower elevation L vieirae but L pinnatula has shortly acuminate apices to the sepals and a lip with decurved bases.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orquideologia Vol 20 #3 1997 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXXII Luer 2012 drawing fide; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 3 Ortiz & Uribe 2019 drawing/photo fide;
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