Lepanthes altamiranoi Luer 2010 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Breves Luer 1986 SERIES Breves Luer 1996

TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and the The Epidendra Website

Deep Shade Cold LATE Fall EARLY Winter

Common Name or Meaning Altamirano's Lepanthes [Bolivian co-collector of species]

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Cochabamba department of Bolivia in wet montane forests at elevations around 2200 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 4 to 5, minutely ciliate, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly ovate, acute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late fall and early winter on a loose, recurved, to .4" [to 1 cm] long including the .12" [3 mm] long peduncle, successively single, 3 to 4 flowered inflorescence holding the flower just off the leaf base.

Synonyms

ReferencesW3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXXI 2010 drawing fide

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