Lepanthes anchorifera Luer 2003 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
Photos by © Alexander Hirtz
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name The Anchor Carrying Lepanthes [refers to the appendix shape]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Risaralda and Valle de Cauca departments of Colombia at elevations around 2280 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 6 to 7, microscopically ciliate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, purple suffused beneath, purple margined, erect, coriaceous, elliptical-ovate, acuminate, basally rounded and contracted intothe petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on a slender, arising on the back of the leaf, .28 to .32" [7 to 8 mm] long, congested, distichous, successively single, several flowered inflorescence with shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying purple suffused sepals with the margins green, orange petals that are red at the base, and a red lip.
"Characterized by the small, caespitose habit successively flowered inflorescence shorter than the ovate, acuminate leaf. The sepals are acute and the petals are transeverse with pubescent, equal-sized, oblong lobes. The blades of the lip are oblong and concave with long-ciliate apices. The connectives are as broad as the blades are long with an obtuse angle on the anterior margin. Most distinctive is the strap-like, concave appendix with a transverse, pubescent, anchor-shaped terminal segment." Luer 2012
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Revista de la Sociedad Boliviana de Botanica 4[3]: 3-24 Luer 2003 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXXII Luer 2012 drawing 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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