Lepanthes ruscifolia Rchb.f. 1850 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
Leaf Photos by © Linda & Mikael Karlbom
TYPE Drawing of Leaf TYPE Drawing by © Rchb.f and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Another Drawing Drawing by © Ernesto Foldats
Common Name The Ruschia-Like Leaf Lepanthes
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in French Guiana, Surinam, Venezuela in cloud forests at elevations of 1800 to 2475 meters as a miniature to small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with an erect, ramicaul enveloped by 7 imbricate, ciliate, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, erect, elliptic, acute leaf that blooms in the spring on 1 to 2, erect, 1" [2.5 cm] long, fractiflex, successively single flowered inflorescence
CAUTION!!! ... I am not sure of this ID's so please use with caution. The Type drawing by Rchb.f is absolutely corrrect.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Xenia Orchidaceae Rchb.f 1854 Drawing fide; Flora de Venezuela Volumen XV Part 2 Foldats 1970 drawing not = L biappendiculata; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 5 Dunsterville and Garay 1972 as L pteropogon drawing ?; Orchids of Venezuela An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 as L pteropogon drawing ?; The Orchids of Surinam Werkhoven 1986 photo fide; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing hmm; Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 photo hmm;
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