Lepanthes caesariata Luer & R.Escobar 1994 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
Photo by © Sebastian Vieira- Uribe and A NEW SPECIES OF LEPANTHES (PLEUROTHALLIDINAE) FROM THE NORTH OF THE CENTRAL ANDES OF COLOMBIA
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Epidendra Website
LATER
Common Name or Meaning The Long-Haired Lepanthes [refers to the petals]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Choco' department of Colombia in cloud forests at elevations around 2000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 10 to 11, microscopically scabrous, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, suberect, coriaceous, ovate, acute, lightly acuminate, rounded to cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later spring on a filiform, congested, distichous, .48 to .84" [1.2 to 2.1 cm] long including the .4 to .6" [1 to 1.5 cm] long peduncle, successively single, several flowered inflorescence arising on the back of the leaf and carrying flowers with dull green sepals with orange petals with the upper edge purple and a lavender lip.
"This little species from the Western Cordillera is distinguished by more or less spreading ovate,lightly acuminate leaves that bear the short, congested raceme on the under surface. The sepals are broad and obtuse. The transverse petals are densely long-pubescent. The thin, oblong blades of the lip are adherent to each other over the column. Each blade is supported by an oblong connective from the basal third. The body is rounded and protruberant with a pubescent, oblong appendix at the summit. The apical stigma is transversely bilobed as seen in Stelis etc." Luer & Escobar 1994
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orquideología Vol 19 #2 pg 82 Luer & Excobar 1994 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXXII 2012 drawing fide; Orchids A Colombian Treasure Vol 3 Ortiz & Uribe 2019 photo fide; Orquideas de Farallones de Cali Galindo-Tarazona, Haelterman, Zuluaga Trochez and Sebastian Moreno 2020 photo fide; A NEW SPECIES OF LEPANTHES (PLEUROTHALLIDINAE) FROM THE NORTH OF THE CENTRAL ANDES OF COLOMBIA Vieira & Moreno 2022 photo fide
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