Lepanthes schizura Luer 1983 SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes 1993

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Type Drawing Drawing by © Alejorchids and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website

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Common Name The Cleft Tail Lepanthes [refers to the split appendix]

Flower Size .16" [4 mm]

Found in eastern Ecuador at elevations around 1200 to 1650 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a slender, erect ramicaul enveloped by 5 to 7 close, minutely ciliate lepanthiform sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly ovate, acute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall through spring on a filiform, congested, distichous, to .68" [1.7 cm] long, successively flowered inflorescence arising on the back of the leaf with minutely spiculate floral bracts.

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

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