Lepanthes antennata Luer & R.Escobar 1994 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
TYPE Photo by © Rodrigo Escobar
Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Epidendra website
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EARLY 
Common Name The Antenna Like Lepanthes [refers to the elongate petals]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Choco` and Valle de Cauca departments of Colombia at elevations of 1800 to 2100 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with weak, slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 13 to 14, microscopically ciliate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, more or less spreading, coriaceous, suffused with purple, elliptical, acute, long-acuminate, the sides convex with recurved margins, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late fall and early winter on a slender, congested, distichous, .8" [2 cm] long including the .4 to .6" [1 to 1.5 cm] long peduncle, successively single, few flowered inflorescence arising on the top of the leaf with acute, lightly muricate floral bracts
Similar to L urotepala, L dicyrtopetala, L silverstoneii and L vibrissa.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Orquideologia Vol 19 #2 pg 81-83. Luer & R.Escobar 1994 photo/drawing fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXXII 2012 drawing fide; Orchids A Colombian Treasure Vol 3 Ortiz & Uribe 2019 photo fide;
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