Lepanthes climax Luer & R.Escobar 1988 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes

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

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Common Name The Staircase-Like Lepanthes [refers to the climbing habit of the plant]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Santander department of Colombia in cloud forests at elevations around 2850 meters as a small [individually] sized, cold growing epiphyte with slender to stout, often superposed ramicauls enveloped by 7 to 9, minutely ciliate, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, elliptical, acute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later spring on a slender, loose, flexuous, 3.6 to 4" [9 to 10 cm] long including the 1.6 to 2" [4 to 5 cm] long peduncle, successively single, several flowered inflorescence.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orquideologia Vol 17 #3 pg 162, Luer & Escobar 1988 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXXII Luer 2012 drawing fide; Orchids A Colombian Treasure Vol 3 Ortiz & Uribe 2019 drawing fide;

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