Lepanthes chaoae (S.V.Uribe & L.Jost) J.M.H.Shaw 2017
Photos by © Jose Radins and his Flora de Misiones Blog Page
EARLY
Common Name Chao's Lepanthes [Dr. Anne Chao of the Institute of Statistics, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, in honor of her support for conservation of Fundacion EcoMinga, whose Rio Zuñac Reserve in Ecuador now protects the site where this species was originally discovered current]
Flower Size .08" [2 mm]
Found in Putumayo department of Colombia and Tungurahua province of Ecuador in very wet, airy cloud forest, at elevations of 2100 to 2500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold, repent and pendent growing epiphyte with short ramicauls enveloped by a membraneous, infundibular lepanthiform sheath ciliate along the ribs with a dilated, ciliate ostia and carrying a single green, suffused with purple along the veins, thickly coriaceous, cilate, obtuse, glabrous, retuse with a short abaxial apiculum in the sinus, rounded basally and narrowing into the short, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later spring on successively up to 5, basal, slender, peduncle, ascending, .2" [5 mm] long, rachis .06" [1.5 mm] long, congested, successively single, several flowered inflorescence with infundibular, oblique, acuminate, membraneous, sparsely ciliate marginally, shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.
Synonyms Andinia chaoae (S.V.Uribe & L.Jost) Karremans & S.V.Uribe 2017; *Neooreophilus chaoae S.V.Uribe & L.Jost 2015
References Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018 as Prosthechea ionophlebia
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