Lepanthes benzingii Luer 1983 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes

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

Common Name Benzing's Lepanthes [American Botanist later 1900's]

Flower Size .16" [4 mm]

Found in Napo province of Ecuador at elevations around 850 to 1250 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a slender, erect ramicaul enveloped by 7 to 8 microscopically ciliate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, broadly elliptical, shortly acuminate, abruptly acute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall and winter on a filiform, extremely congested, distichous, .92" [2.3 cm] long, successively several flowered inflorescence arising mostly on the back of the leaf.

"Recognized by the round leaves, shortly acuminate at the apex, borne by slender ramicauls, a congested, long-pedicellate raceme shorter than the leaf, oblong blades of the lip held together above the column and a horseshoe shaped stigma held above a stout, pubescent appendix." Luer 1996

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Phytologia 54:331 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

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