Lepanthes vatrax Luer 1983 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Breves SERIES Breves Luer 1993 Drawing by Carl Luer © and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Clubbed Foot Lepanthes [refers to the Shape of the Appendix]

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Zamora-Chinchipe Ecuador at elevations around 1100 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with an erect, slender ramicaul enveloped by 4 to 5, close, microscopically scabrous, lepanthiform sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly ovate, acute, narrowly cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on a filiform, subdense, subflexuous, to 1" [2.5 cm] long, successively single, several flowered inflorescence arising on the back of the leaf.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XIV Luer 1996 drawing fide; Flora of Ecuador No 88 Lepanthes and affiliates Dodson & Luer 2011 drawing fide

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