Lepanthes celox Luer & Hirtz 1987 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
Photo by Juan Sebastian Moreno
Photo by Bruno Larsen and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
TYPE Drawing Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Yacht Like Lepanthes [refers to the appendix shape]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in northwestern Ecuador at elevations around 800 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with a slender, erect ramicaul enveloped by 5 to 6, minutely ciliate, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, purplish beneath, coriaceous, broadly oblong, obtuse, rounded and contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter and spring on a filiform, very congested, distichous, .6" [1.5 cm] long, successively several flowered inflorescence arising on the back of the leaf.
"Characterized by the short, distichous, raceme with a pinkish flower with long-pointed lobes of the petals. Most distinguishing is the long boat-shaped appendix with a solid prow that reaches to just beneath the viscidium." Luer 1996
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Lindleyana 2: 36 Luer & Hirtz 1987 Drawing fide;
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;
Orquideas de Farallones de Cali Galindo-Tarazona, Haelterman, Zuluaga Trochez and Sebastian Moreno 2020 photo fide;
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