Lepanthes tibouchinicola Luer & R.Escobar 1983 Photo courtesy Luis Perez and his Fliskr Photo Website

Drawing Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana Bogota Colombia

Common Name The Tibouchina-Loving Lepanthes [A tree commonly called Siete-cueros or 7 leather tree]

Flower Size .2" [5mm]

Found in Antioquia Colombia in temperate forests at elevations around 2500 to 2800 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 3 to 4 close, microscopically scabrous lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, narrowly cuneate below into the subpetiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a progerrsively lengthening, to 9.2" [23 cm] long, secund, sublaxly many flowered, racemose inflorescence with only 2 to 3 flowers open at any one time. .

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *AOS Bulletin Vol 52 No 12 1983 photo; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994 photo fide Checked tropicos type OK

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