Lepanthes pilosa Luer & R.Vásquez 1998 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
Photo by © Modesto Zarate B. and The Parque Naciaonal Carrasco, Cochabamba Bolivia, Orquideas del Proyecto Hidroelectrico Ivirizu Website
Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Epidendra Webpage
EARLY 
Common Name The Hairy Lepanthes [refers to the hairy apices of the lip]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Cochabamaba department of Bolivia at elevations of 1750 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with slender, erect, ramicauls enveloped by 5 to 6 lepanthiform sheaths with long ciliate ostia and carrying a single, apical, erect, coricaceous, broadly elliptical, obtuse to rounded, contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the early summer on a loose, 3.5" [7 cm] long including the .4" [1 cm] long peduncle, successively several to many flowered inflorescence arising on the top of the leaf and has spiculate floral bracts.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXXI Luer 2010 drawing fide; The Parque Naciaonal Carrasco, Cochabamba Bolivia, Orquideas del Proyecto Hidroelectrico Ivirizu Website 2021 photo fide
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