Lepanthes splendida Luer & Hirtz 1993 SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
EARLY
Common Name The Splendid Lepanthes
Flower Size .28” [7 mm]
Found in Morona-Santiago Ecuador at elevations around 1900 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 3 to 4, minutely ciliate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the early summer on an erect, loose, to 3.8” [9.5 cm] long including the 1.2” [3 cm] longh peduncle, simultaneosuly 5 to 6 flowered inflorescence held well above the leaf carrying large purple flowers.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XIV Luer 1996 drawing fide;
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