Lepanthes repens Luer 1983 SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes 1993
Drawing by © Andreas Kay and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Creeping Lepanthes [refers to the repent rhizome]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in southern Colombia and Ecuador at elevations around 2800 to 3400 meters as a small to medium sized, cold growing epiphyte or terrestrial with a repent rhizome with .4 to 1.2" [1 to 3 cm] between each stout, ascending to erect ramicaul enveloped by 10 to 13, microscopically scabrous lepanthiform sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, ovate-elliptic, acute to acuminate to acute, broadly cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on 1 to 3 congested, distichous, to 3.2" [8 cm] long including the .6 to 1.6" [1.5 to 4 cm] long peduncle, successively flowered inflorescence arising on the back of the leaf.
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; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXXII Luer 2012 drawing fide; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 3 Ortiz & Uribe 2019 photo fide; Phytotaxa 422 (3) Zambrano 2019 drawing fide
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