Lepanthes rupicola Schltr. 1913 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes

Photo by © Saul Altamirano A. and The Parque Naciaonal Carrasco, Cochabamba Bolivia, Orquideas del Proyecto Hidroelectrico Ivirizu Website

TYPE DrawingDrawing by © Carl Luer and The Epidendra Webpage

LATE EARLY

Common Name The Rock Loving Lepanthes [refers to its habitat]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Santa Cruz department of Bolivia on mossy rocks at elevations around 2000 to 2530 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 3 to 4, minutely ciliate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, obtuse to rounded apically, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late spring and early summer on a slender, loose, 1.6" [4 cm] long including the .04” [1 mm] long peduncle, successively several flowered inflorescence exceeding the leaf in length

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXX1 Luer 2010 drawing fide;

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