Lepanthes conchyliata Luer 2009 - See Lepanthes planadensis SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes

TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer

EARLY

Common Name The Purple Lepanthes [refers to the flower color]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in southern? Colombia without locational data as a miniature sized epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 6 to 7, glabrous, long-acuminate, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, erect, narrowly elliptical, acute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late summer and early fall on a lax, 1.12" to 1.52" [ 2.8 to 3.8 cm] long including the .32" [8 mm] long peduncle, successively single, several flowered inflorescence arising on the sulcus of the leaf and has oblique, acute floral bracts.

CAUTION !!!!A.Doucette, H Medina & J.Portilla put this species as a synonym of Lepanthes planadensis in

AOS Bulletin Vol 92: 376 A.Doucette, H Medina & J.Portilla 2023. I leave it separtate for now as Kew still has them as separate species.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXXII Luer 2012 drawing fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 92: 378 A.Doucette, H Medina & J.Portilla 2023 as Synonym of Lepanthes planadensis

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