Lepanthes setifera Luer & R.Escobar 1984 SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes Novon 1993 Photo by © Lauren Grobler

Another Flower Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website

Common Name or Meaning The Bristle Bearing Lepanthes [refers to the bristly appendix]

Flower Size .2" [3mm]

Found in Southern Colombia and western Ecuador in wet forests at elevations around 1200 to 1650 meters as a miniature to just small sized, warm growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 9 to 18, minutely ciliate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, often suffused with purple beneath, ovate, acute, lightly acuminate, cuneate to rounded below and contracted into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a slender, congested, to 2" [to 5 cm] long, successively many flowered, racemose inflorescence arising behind the leaf..

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *AOS Bulletin Vol 53 No 8 1984 photo; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XIV Luer 1996 drawing fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 2 COS 1991 photo fide; Flora of Ecuador No 88 Lepanthes and affiliates Dodson & Luer 2011 drawing fide

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