Lepanthes brunnescens Luer 1984 SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Mucronatae Luer 1996
Photo by © Peter Peeters Four new species of Lepanthes (Pleurothallidinae) from the southwestern Andes in Colombia
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Epidendra Website CR
Common Name The Brownish Lepanthes
Flower Size .2" [5mm]
Found in Costa Rica in cloud forests at elevations of 900 to 1100 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing, epiphytic species with erect, slender, ramicauls enveloped by 5 to 10 lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single ovate, acute, tridenticulate apically leaf that blooms in the winter on a few, 1" [2.5 cm] long successively single, several flowered inflorescence.
"Related to the similar L mucronata but characterized by the overall brown color, a long-pedicellate, congested raceme, petals with the lower lobe erose, a lip with broad connectives from the middle of the blades and a large, boat-shaped appendix with figurehead." Luer 1984
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Lankester's Epidendra Website CR CHECKED Type OK; * Phytologia 55: 179. Luer & Vasquez 1984; Four new species of Lepanthes (Pleurothallidinae) from the southwestern Andes in Colombia photo fide
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