Lepanthes sucumbiensis Luer & Hirtz 2007 Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Sucumbio Lepanthes [A province of Ecuador]

Flower Size .12” [3 mm]

Found in Sucumbios Ecuador at elevations around 1200 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with suberect to erect, stout ramicauls enveloped by 8 to 9, ciliate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, minutely reticulate, ovate, acute, rounded and abruptly contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on a, filiform, congested, distichous, .4 to 64” [1 to 1.6 cm] long including the .2 to .8” [5 to 8 mm] long peduncle, successively many flowered inflorescence arising on the back of the leaf

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIX Luer 2007 drawing fide;

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