Lepanthes portillae Luer 1999 SUBGENUS Marsipanthes SECTION Marisipanthes Photo by © Lourens Grobler
Inflorescence Photo by Bruno Larsen and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
Common Name Portilla's Lepanthes [Ecuadorian Nurseryman Current]
Flower Size .1" [2mm]
Found in southeastern Ecuador at elevations around 1800 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with erect, slender, ramicauls enveloped basally by 11 to 12, shortly ciliate, lepanthiform sheaths with dilated ostia and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, broadly elliptical, broadly obtuse to rounded apically, rounded below and contracted abruptly into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a slender, beyond the leaf, to 2" [5 cm] long, loose, successively several flowered inflorescence with echinate floral bracts and holding the flower in a pendant position.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum XVIII. Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1999 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 photo fide; Flora of Ecuador No 88 Lepanthes and affiliates Dodson & Luer 2011 drawing fide
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