Lepanthes rutrum Luer & R.Escobar 1994 Photo by © Jay Pfahl
Plant and Flower Photos by © Milan Vagner
Another Flower Photo by © Jay Pfahl 
Common Name The Hoe-Like Lepanthes
Flower Size 1/4" [.7 cm]
Found in the department of Valle de Cauca, Colombia at elevations around 1350 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with erect, stout ramicauls enveloped basally by 4 to 5, white, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical erect, thickly coriaceous, rigid, ovate, rounded, apically mucronate, abruptly narrows to the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a terminal, 1/2" [1.25 cm] long, successively few flowered inflorescence.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; CHECKED TYPE drawing fide
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