Lepanthes smaragdina Luer & R. Escobar 1994 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
Photo by © Brian S. at The Seattle Orchid Website
TYPE Photo by Rodrigo Escobar/TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and Orquideologia 19: 115 Luer & Escobar 1994
Photo by © Milan Vagner
Common Name The Emerald Green Lepanthes
Flower Size .24” [6 mm]
Found in Antioquia department of Colombia at elevations around 1600 to 1700 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 13 to 14, leapnthiform sheaths with dilate, ciliate ostia and carrying a single, purple suffused, glabrous to minutely pubescent, concave sulcate, spreading, coriaceous, ovate, acute, rounded and contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on a slender, within the sulcus of the top of the leaf, congested, secund, .8 to 1” [2 to 2.5 cm] long including the .4 to .6” [1 to 1.5 cm] long peduncle, successively single, many flowered inflorescence.
This species is close to L manabina but differs in the broadly ovate, obtuse, tailless and not concave dorsal sepal and the lateral sepals are connate to form an ovate synsepal with an acute split apex. Also similar is L ortiziana, but it has lateral sepals that are spreading rather than approximate and the petals are wider with more or less uncinate, incurved upper lobes.
Checked type W3Tropicos OK
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orquideologia 19: 115 Luer & Escobar 1994 drawing fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXXII Luer 2012 drawing fide; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 3 Ortiz & Uribe 2019 drawing/photo fide; Orquideas de Farallones de Cali Galindo-Tarazona, Haelterman, Zuluaga Trochez and Sebastian Moreno 2020 photo fide
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