Lepanthes chelonion Luer & R. Escobar 1985 SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Elongatae 1993
Photo by © Arturo Carrilo
Photo by © Jay Pfahl
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The AOS Website
Common Name .2" [5 mm]
Flower Size 1/4" x 3/4" [.7 x 2 cm]
Found in Colombia at elevations of 2600 meters in sub-paramo mist forests as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with horizontal to erect ramicauls enveloped by 3 to 4 lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single apical, erect, coriaceous, ovate, rounded, gradually narrows below into the base leaf that blooms in the spring on an erect, to ascending, 1 5/8" [4 cm] long, successively, single flowered inflorescence.
Similar to L agatarum, L calocodon, L cloesii, L cymbium and L nautilus.
Exact match to type
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * AOS Bulletin Vol 54 page 54 January Luer & Escobar 1985 drawing/photo fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXXII Luer 2012 Luer drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 86 #12 2017 photo fide; Orchids A Colombian Treasure Vol 3 Ortiz & Uribe 2019 drawing/photo fide;
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