Lepanthes vulpina Luer & Sijm 2002 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes

TYPE Drawing by © Luer Selbyana 23: 24 Luer & Sijmi 2002

Common Name The Fox-Like Lepanthes [refers to the erect, upper lobes of the petals appearing to be fox-ears]

Flower Size .2" [5mm]

Found in Huanuco department of Peru without locational data as a mini-miniature sized, caespitose epiphyte with slender erect ramicauls enveloped by 6, minutely ciliate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, broadly ovate, obtuse, transverse basally, abruptly contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on an erect, arising on the top of the leaf, congested, peduncle .28 to .32" [7 to 8 mm] long, rachis .28 to .32" [7 to 8 mm] long, successively single, several flowered inflorescence with shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.

"Characterized by a broadly elliptical leaf borne by a longer ramicaul with closely appressed sheaths. The raceme is short, congested, successively many-flowered, and borne behind the leaf. The sepals are glabrous, narrowly triangular and acute. The petals are transversely bilobed with narrowly oblong lobes opposite and together longer than a sepal. The blades of the lip are narrowly oblong and borne by triangular connectives. The appendix is small, oblong and compressed. " Luer & Sijmi 2002

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Selbyana 23: 24 Luer & Sijmi 2002 Drawing fide;

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