Lepanthes ollaris Luer & R.Escobar 1984 SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Mucronatae Luer 1996
Photo by © Jorge Mario Munera
Photo by © Betoguerro and The Orchid Board Website
TYPE by © Carl Luer
Common Name The Pot-Like Lepanthes [refers to the deep cavity of the lip]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in western Colombia to northwestern Ecuador at elevations around 1700 to 2300 meters as a small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with an erect, slender ramicaul enveloped by 10 to 14, shortly ciliate lepanthiform sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, ovate, acute to acuminate, rounded and contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter and spring on a filiform, congested, 1.4 to 2" [3.5 to 5 cm] long including the .4 to 1" [1 to 2.5 cm] long peduncle, successively single several flowered inflorescence and arising on the back of the leaf.
"Distinguished by a rather large, thin elliptical, acuminate leaf borne by a tall ramicaul. The flowers are borne in a congested raceme held in the center, behind the leaf. The flowers are large and basically similar to L agglutinata but differs in the lip with the body dilated into a large, saccate structure beneath the column." Luer 1996
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * AOS Bulletin 53[9]: 920, Luer & Escobar 1984 drawing/photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XIV Systematics of Draconanthes, Lepanthes subgenus Marsipanthes and subgenus Lepanthes of Ecuador Luer 1996 drawing fide; Flora of Ecuador No 88 Lepanthes and affiliates Dodson & Luer 2011 drawing 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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