Lepanthes cirrata Luer & Hirtz 2009 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes

TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Webpage

LATE EARLY

Common Name The Tendril-Like Lepanthes [refers to the slender, twisted tip of the leaf]

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Imbabura province of Ecuador at lower elevations as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with suberect to drooping, very slender ramicauls enveloped by 10 to 12, close-fitting, glabrous, lepanthiform sheaths with microscopically ciliate ostia and carrying a single, apical, thinly coriaceous, broadly elliptical, obtuse and contracted into a slender, twisted segment, broadly cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late summer and early fall on a filiform, congested, distichous, .6 to .68" [1.5 to 1.7 cm] long, successively single, several flowered inflorescence arising on the top of the leaf.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXX Luer 2009 drawing fide;

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