Lepanthes aries Luer 1983 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
Photos by © Alexander Hirtz
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Ram-Like Lepanthes [refers to the recurved bases of the blades of the lip]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in southern Colombia and northern Ecuador at elevations around 2000 to 2730 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with a slender, erect ramicaul enveloped by 8 to 11, minutely ciliate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, oblong, acute to acuminate, cuneate and contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a filiform, congested, distichous, 2.8" [7 cm] long, successively few flowered inflorescence arising on the back of the leaf.
"Recognized by the congested inflorescence borne on a peduncle nearly as long as the ovate, acuminate leaf, the serrulate, pubescent sepals, the acuminate petals, the blades of the lip with elongate, recurves bases and a minute tripatite appendix." Luer 1996
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Phytologia 54:329 Luer 1983; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XIV Systematics of Draconanthes, Lepanthes subgenus Marsipanthes and subgenus Lepanthes of Ecuador Luer 1996 drawing fide; Flora of Ecuador No 88 Lepanthes and affiliates Dodson & Luer 2011 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXXII 2012 drawing fide; Orchids A Colombian Treasure Vol 3 Ortiz & Uribe 2019 photo fide;
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