Lepanthes canaliculata Luer & R.Escobar 1997 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
Side View of Flower showing appendix
Photos by © Sebastian Moreno and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Epidendra Website
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Common Name or Meaning Longitudinally Concave Lepanthes [refers to the mature leaf shape]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Choco' department of Colombia in cloud forests at elevations around 2000 to 2150 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing twig-epiphyte with slender, erect, ramicauls enveloped by 6 to 7, microscopically ciliate, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, immature leaf erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute, mature leaf more or less horizontal, narrowly linear, acute, canaliculate with involute sides, subsessile base leaf that blooms in the later spring on a filiform, congested, distichous, .32 to .36" [8 to 9 mm] long, including the .24 to .28" [6 to 7 mm] long peduncle, successively single, few flowered inflorescence arising within the channel of the top of the leaf.
There are only a few Lepanthes with terete leaves and they are L aciculifolia,L canaliculata, L fusiformis, L gustavoi and L teres.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Orquideologia Vol 20 #3 pg 287 Luer & Escobar 1997 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXXII Luer 2012 Luer drawing fide; Orchids A Colombian Treasure Vol 3 Ortiz & Uribe 2019 photo fide;
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