Lepanthes ankistra Luer & Dressler 1986 SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Mucronatae Luer 1996
Photo by © J S Moreno and Four new species of Lepanthes (Pleurothallidinae) from the southwestern Andes in Colombia
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name The Hook Lepanthes [refers to the mid lobe of the petals]
Flower Size .12" [3mm]
Found in Panama in cloud forests at elevations around 1500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with slender, horizontal to suberect ramicauls enveloped by 6 to 14, close lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, horizontal, thinly coriaceous, narrowly ovate, acute, acuminate, cuneate and rounded below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on a very congested, filiform, .8" [2 cm] long, successively few flowered inflorescence arising on top of the leaf.
Similar to L mucronata but differs in the setiform process of the petals margin. L brunnescens Is the closest relative but but the inferior lobes of the petals strongly uncinate separates it.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Orquideologia 16(3): 12 Luer & Dressler 1986 photo/drawing fide;
Lankesteriana 12[3]: 207 - 214 Romero 2014 photo/drawing fide;
Orchids A Colombian Treasure Vol 3 Ortiz & Uribe 2019 photo fide;
Four new species of Lepanthes (Pleurothallidinae) from the southwestern Andes in Colombia photo fide; Orquideas de Farallones de Cali Galindo-Tarazona, Haelterman, Zuluaga Trochez and Sebastian Moreno 2020 photo fide;
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