Lepanthes urotepala Rchb.f. 1856 SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes 1993
Photos by © Andreas Kay and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Similar flower but not see L dicytropetala?
Photo by © Lourens Grobler
Common Name The Tail Like Petal Lepanthes [refers to the long-acuminate upper lobe of the petal]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Ecuador at elevations around 2100 to 2600 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with an erect, slender ramicaul enveloped by 8 to 11, microscopically scabrous lepanthiform sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, elliptical, acute to subacute or acuminate, cuneate to rounded and contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall and winter on a filiform, congested, disitchous, 1 to 1.6" [2.5 to 4 cm] long, successively many flowered inflorescence arising on the top of the leaf.
Similar to L antennata, L dicyrtopetala, L silverstoneii and L vibrissa.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Xenia Rchb.f 1856; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XIV Luer 1996 drawing fide to dawing not photo; Flora of Ecuador No 88 Lepanthes and affiliates Dodson & Luer 2011 drawing fide to drawing not photo;
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