Lepanthes rutrum Luer & R.Escobar 1994 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
Photo by © Jay Pfahl
Photos by © Milan Vagner
Photo by © Jay Pfahl
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name The Spade-Like Lepanthes [refers to the leaf shape]
Flower Size .12" [3 mm]
Found in the Valle de Cauca department of Colombia at elevations around 1350 meters as a miniature sized, 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 slender, dense, distichous, .5 to .8" [1.25 to 2 cm] long including the .32 to .6” [8 to 15 mm] long peduncle, successively few flowered inflorescence.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Orquideologia Vol 19 #2 1994 photo/drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXXII Luer 2012 drawing fide; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 3 Ortiz & Uribe 2019 drawing/photo fide; Orquideas de Farallones de Cali Galindo-Tarazona, Haelterman, Zuluaga Trochez and Sebastian Moreno 2020 photo fide CHECKED TYPE W3Tropicos drawing fide;
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