Lepanthes boyacensis Luer & R.Escobar 1984 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
Photo by © Jorge Mario Munera
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Webpage
Common Name The Boyaca Lepanthes [refers to the Department of Colombia where the species occurs]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Boyaca department of Colombia at elevations above 2500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 3 to 5, minutely ciliate, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a filiform, erect to arching, flexuous, 1.2 to 1.6" [3 to 4 cm] long including the .6 to 1" [1.5 to 2.5 cm] long peduncle, successively few flowered inflorescence with echinate floral bracts.
"This large flowered species is similar to L costata [an accepted species that I have no information on] but the new species differs in the shortly caudate sepals concave blades of the lip and a terminal tuft of hairs on the membraneousappendix." LUer 1984
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * American Orchid Society Bulletin 53[8]: 820, Luer & Escobar 1984 drawing/photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXXII Luer 2012 drawing fide; Orchids A Colombian Treasure Vol 3 Ortiz & Uribe 2019 drawing/photo fide;
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