Lepanthes georgii Luer & R. Escobar 1994 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Haplocheilus
Photo by © Jay Pfahl
Photo by Jim Hamilton Petite Plaisance Orchids
TYPE Drawing TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
LATER
Common Name Georgi's Lepanthes [Named in honor of Jorge Lopez of Colomborquideas who discovered this species]
Flower Size .24" [6 mm]
Found in Colombia at elevations around 2400 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 7 to 8 tight, microscopically scabrous lepanthiform sheaths with auminate apices, and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, ovate, acute, rounded and contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later spring on a filiform, congested, distichous, .64 to .72" [1.6 to 1.8 cm] long including the .36 to .44" [9 to 11 mm] long peduncle, successively single, several flowered inflorescence arising on the back of the leaf and has muriculate floral bracts.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orquideologia Vol 19 #2 1994 drawing/photo fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994 photo fide; Orquideología Vol 21 #2 Luer & Escobar 1999 as L bifurcatadrawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 64 No 10 1995 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXXII Luer 2012 drawing fide;
Checked Type w3tropicos fide
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