Lepanthes ricaurtensis Luer & R.Escobar 1994 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Mucronatae 1996
Photos by © Sebastain Moreno and his Flickr Orchid Photo Webpage
TYPE drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Webpage
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Common Name The Ricaurte Lepanthes [a town in the department of Narino]
Flower Size .12" [3 mm]
Found in Narino department of Colombia at elevations around 1600 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with slender, suberect ramicauls enveloped by 5 to 9, microscopically ciliate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, suberect, coriaceous, narrowly ovate, acute, acuminate, conspicuously tridentate, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a congested, distichous, .8" [2 cm] long including the .6” [1.5 cm] long peduncle, successively several flowered inflorescence with oblique floral bracts
Part of the L mucronata complex in the green irregularly truncate petals on top of the narrowly ovate leaf but differs in the lip, instead of a large oblong, concave appendix beneath the thin membraneous blades of the lip in L mucronata this one has a short and triangular appendix and the blades of the lip are quite thick.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orquideoplogia Vol 19 #2 1994 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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