Lepanthes aures-asini Luer & R.Escobar 1984 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
Photo By © Rodrigo Escobar
TYPE Drawing By © Carl Luer
Original Drawing By © Padre Pedro Ortiz and conserved in conservan en el Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana
Common Name The Donkey Eared Lepanthes [refers to the large petals]
Flower Size .1" [3mm]
Found in Antioquia department of Colombia at elevations of 2400 to 2570 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with erect, slender, ramicauls enveloped by 4 to 5 close, microscopically ciliate, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, erect, thickly coriaceous to semiterete, very narrowly ovate, acute, gradually cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a dense, distichous, 1" [2.5 cm] long, successively several, one to two flowered at a time inflorescence
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * American Orchid Society Bulletin Vol 53 No 2 1984 drawing/photo 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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