Lepanthes vogelii Luer & R.Vásquez 1991 Drawing by © Carl Luer

EARLY

Common Name Vogel's Lepanthes

Flower Size .16" [4 mm]

Found in Cochabamba Bolivia in riverine forests and cloud forests at elevations around 2450 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by around 7, close fitting, lepanthiform sheaths with dilated ostia and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptic, acute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the early summer on a filiform, congested, disitichous, successively several flowered inflorescence

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Bolivia Vasquez & Ibisch 2000

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