Lepanthes tachirensis Foldats 1968 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Breves SERIES Breves Luer 1993
Photo courtesy of Lisa Thoerle
Photo courtesy of Arturo Carillo
Common Name The Tachira Lepanthes [A State In Venezuela]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador at elevations of 1400 to 3400 meters as a miniature to medium sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with slender to stout, erect, ramicauls enveloped basally by 10 to 18, pale tan, glabrous, lepanthiform sheaths with non-dilated ostia and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly ovate-elliptical, acute, leaf that is cuneate below into a petiole that blooms in the winter, spring and summer on an erect, subcongested, distichous, 1.6 to 2.6" [4 to 6.5 cm] long including the .4 to 1.4” [1 to 3.5 cm] long peduncle, few to many flowered, racmose inflorescence carried behind the leaf.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 2 1970 drawing fide; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 6 Dunsterville & Garay 1976 drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela ; An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide; Native Orchids of Colombia Vol 5 Luer 1994 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XIV Systematics of Draconanthes and Lepanthes Luer 1996 drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 62 #2 1998 photo fide; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 2 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide; Flora of Ecuador No 88 Lepanthes and affiliates Dodson & Luer 2011 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXXII Luer 2012 drawing fide; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 3 Ortiz & Uribe 2019 drawing/photo fide; Orquideas de Farallones de Cali Galindo-Tarazona, Haelterman, Zuluaga Trochez and Sebastian Moreno 2020 photo fide
Checked Luer drawing exact!
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