Lepanthes acutissima Luer & R.Escobar 1994 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
Side View in situ La Messinia Reserve Antioquia/Risaralda Colombia 3/20
Leaf and Flowers in situ La Messinia Reserve Antioquia/Risaralda Colombia 3/20
Leaf from above in situ La Messinia Reserve Antioquia/Risaralda Colombia 3/20
Photos by © Jay Pfahl
TYPE Photo by Rodrigo Escobar/TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and the The Epidendra Website
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Common Name or Meaning The Sharpest Lepanthes [refers to the sepals]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Risaralda and Antioquia departments of Colombia in cloud forests at elevations around 2400 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped by 12 to 14, close fitting, microscopically ciliate-scabrous, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, ovate, acuminate, rounded below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later spring on a filiform, to 2.8" [to 7 cm] long including the 1 to 1.4" [2.5 to 3.5 cm] long peduncle, successively single, many flowered inflorescence with acuminate floral bracts and arising from behind the leaf.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Orquideologia Vol 19 #2 pg 73-83. Luer & R.Escobar 1994 drawing/photo fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXXII 2012 drawing fide; The Orchid Review Vol 127 No 1328 December 2019 photo fide; Orchids A Colombian Treasure Vol 3 Ortiz & Uribe 2019 drawing/photo fide;
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