Lepanthes bivalvis Luer & Sijm 2002 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
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TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and Selbyana Webpage
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Common Name or Meaning The Bivalved Lepanthes [refers to the blades of the lip]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Huanuco department of Peru without elevational data as a miniature sized, cool, scandent growing epiphyte with slender, erect to oblique raqmicauls enveloped by 7 to 8, prominently ciliate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erct, coriaceous, elliptical-ovate, acute, slightly acuminate, cuneate and contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later summer on an erect, borne behind the leaf, peduncle to .4" [[1 cm] long, rachis .4" [1 cm] long, congested, distichous, successively single, many-flowered inflorescence with as long as the pedicel floral bracts.
"Characterized by a prolific habit; short, congested racemes; small, bilobed petals; and convex, hemispherical blades of the lip. The connectives are short and thick with a thick body. The appendix appears to be represented by a broad, protruding membrane that is in contact with the undersurface of the column." Luer 2002
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Miscellaneous new Species in the Pleurothallidinae Selbyana Vol 23 # 2 pg 7 Luer 2002 drawing fide;
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