Lepanthes aguirrei Luer 2009 SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Mucronatae Luer 1996
Photos by © Sebastian Viera and his His Facebook Page
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Webpage
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Common Name Aguirre's Lepanthes [Colombia Orchid Enthusiast current]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Narino department of Colombia without elevational data as a mini-miniature sized epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 9 to 10, microscopically ciliate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, erect, reticulated with purple, elliptical, subacute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late spring on a filiform, congested, distichous, .32 to .4" [8 to 10 mm] long including the .2 to .24" [5 to 6 mm] long peduncle, successively few flowered inflorescence arising on the top of the leaf
Similar to both L heptapus and L hexapus L skelton as they all have deeply trifurcate petals with slender lobes but L aguirei differs in the much larger flowers, with stoutly caudate sepals instead of acute sepals.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Selbyana 30: 4 Luer & Escobar 2009 Drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXXII Luer 2012 drawing fide; Lankesteriana 18: 183 Baquero & J S Moreno 2018 photo fide; Orchids A Colombian Treasure Vol 3 Ortiz & Uribe 2019 photo fide; Orquideas de Farallones de Cali Galindo-Tarazona, Haelterman, Zuluaga Trochez and Sebastian Moreno 2020 photo fide
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