!Draconanthes aberrans (Schltr.) Luer 1996
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Common Name The Deviating Draconanthes
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia at elevations around 3000 to 3700 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing terrestrial with slender, erect, sometimes prolific ramicauls enveloped by 4 to 7, ciliate, lepanthiform sheaths and carry7ing a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, ellitpic, acute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring through fall on an erect becoming abruptly pendulous, slightly flexuous, congested, distichous, 4 to 9.2" [10 to 23 cm] long, successively few to many flowered inflorescence with up to 3 flowers open at any one time with shortly spiculate, infundibular floral bracts.
Synonyms *Lepanthes aberrans Schltr. 1915; Lepanthes prionota Luer & Hirtz 1987; Lepanthes trachysepala Schltr. 1920
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 2 1970 as Lepanthes trachysepala drawing fide; Lindleyana 2: 102 Luer 1987 as Lepanthes prionota Drawing fide; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XIV Systematics of Draconanthes, Lepanthes subgenus Marsipanthes and subgenus Lepanthes of Ecuador Luer 1996 drawing fide; drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 42 - 43 pg 2626 - 2762 Brieger 2001 drawing fide; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 4 Part 1 Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmussen 2005 photo/drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 76 No 7 2007 photo fide; Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010 drawing fide; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 drawing/photo fide;
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