Lepanthes chocoensis Luer & Thoerle 2011 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
Photo by © Sebastian Viera
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name The Choco' Lepanthes [refers to the department of Colombia where the species occurs]
Flower Size .36" [9 mm]
Found in the Choco' department of Colombia at elevations around 1920 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect, very slender ramicauls enveloped by 6 to 7, glabrous, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, thinly coriaceous, purple suffused, erect, ovate, acute, acuminate to mucronate, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on a slender, arising on the top of the leaf, congested, .52" [1.3 cm] long including the .32" [8 mm] long peduncle, successively few flowered inflorescence minutely muricate, shorter than the pedicel floral bracts
"Characterized by a weak, small plant with very thin ramicauls; an ovate leaf with an acuminate to mucronate tip; a short congeswsted raceme bearing flowers with sepals with cilate margins and caudate apices; a lip with elliptic blades and a reflexed appendix. The small plant with small flwers with widely spreading, denticulate sepals superficially resembles L hirsutula but the latter is distinguished by narrowly oblong, long-ciliate petals and a lip with pubescent blades and a large, pubescent protuberance in place of a sinus." Luer 2012
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Harvard Papers in Botany Vol 16 No 2: 330 Luer, Thoerle and Werner 2011 drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXXII Lepanthes of Colombia Luer 2012
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXXII Lepanthes of Colombia Luer 2012 drawing fide;
Orchids A Colombian Treasure Vol 3 Ortiz & Uribe 2019 photo fide;
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