Lepanthes quadricornis Luer & R. Escobar 1994 SUBGENUS Marsipanthes SECTION Felinae Luer 1986
Photos by Eric Hunt, plant grown by Hanging Gardens
Photo by © Jay Pfahl
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name The Four-Horned Lepanthes [refers to the pair of forked petals]
Flower Size 7/16" [1 cm]
Found in Narino department of Colombia at elevations around 2000 meters as a miniature sized, cool to cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with horizontal, slender ramicauls enveloped by 5 densely ciliate, lepanthiform sheaths carrying a spreading to pendant, coriaceous, marginate, broadly elliptical, obtuse leaf contracted below to a petiole that blooms in the spring and summer on a distichous, 11/16" [1.6 mm] long, successively few flowered raceme with echinate floral bracts.
"Distinguished by the proportionally large flower borne on the top of a broadly elliptical leaf, The densely cikate sepals form a broad, shallow cup, the dorsal sepal has a shirt tail. The thick, erect lobes of the forked petals are oblong and sharply carinate. The glabrous lip forms a "U" with the basal lobes encircling the column." Luer 1996
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orquideologia Vol 19 #2 1994 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XIV Systematics of Draconanthes, Lepanthes subgenus Marsipanthes and subgenus Lepanthes of Ecuador Luer 1996 drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 62 #2 1998 photo fide; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 3 Ortiz & Uribe 2019 drawing/photo fide;
Checked Type drawing W3Tropicos fide
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