Lepanthes solicitor Luer & R.Escobar 1985 SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Mucronatae 1996 Photo by © Rob S and Orchid Board Photo Website

Common Name The Enticer Lepanthes [refers to the appendix "S" shaped alluring look to pollinators]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Norte de Santander Colombia in wet forests at elevations around 750 to 800 meters as a miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 8 to 11, close fitting, microscopically ciliate, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, thinly coriaceous, purple beneath, erect, ovate, long-acuminate, rounded to cuneate and contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring and summer on a filiform, congested, distichous, 1.52" [3.8 cm] long, successively flowered inflorescence arising on the top to beyond the apex of the leaf.

Part of the L mucronata complex which includes L habenifera

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *AOS Bulletin Vol 54 No 1 1985 Luer drawing/photo fide;

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