Lepanthes trichocaulis Luer & R.Escobar 1988 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
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Common Name The Hairy Stemmed Lepanthes [refers to the long ciliate lepanthiform sheaths]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Antioquia department of Colombia at elevations around 1800 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped completely by 10 to 14, long ciliate, lepanthiform sheaths with dilated ostia and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, broadly elliptical, obtuse apically, abruptly acuminate, cuneate to rounded and contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late winter and early spring on a filiform, congested, distichous, .8 to 1" [2 to 2.5 cm] long including the .6 to .8 ” [1.5 to 2 cm] long peduncle, successively several flowered, inflorescence arising on the back of the leaf with echinate floral bracts.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas 6(2 370 Bogarin & C M Sm. 2012 Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 3 Ortiz & Uribe 2019 drawing fide;
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