Lepanthes aperta Luer 2009 SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Mucronatae Luer 1996

TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Webpage

LATE EARLY

Common Name The Open Lepanthes [refers to the exposed column]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Colombia without locational data as a mini-miniature sized epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 4 to 5, microscopically ciliate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, acute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late summer and early fall on a capillary, congested, 1 to 1.28" [2.5 to 3.2 cm] long including the .75 to 1" [1.8 to 2.5 cm] long peduncle, successively few flowered inflorescence exceeding the length of the leaf.

"This small Colombian species without collection data is characterized by an elliptical leaf slightly surpassed by a short, congested raceme borne by a thrice longer peduncle. The sepals are acuminate; the triangular lobes of transverse petals are similar; and the blades of the lip are far apart exposing the column. The distal segment of the appendix is round with a pair of slender, microscopic papillae." Luer & Escobar 2009

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Selbyana 30: 5 Luer & Escobar 2009 Drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXXII Luer 2012 drawing fide; Orchids A Colombian Treasure Vol 3 Ortiz & Uribe 2019;

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