Lepanthes cordata Luer & R.Escobar 1988 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
Photo by © Jean Marc Palandre and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
Photo by © Sebastian Vieira and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
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Common Name or Meaning The Cordate Lepanthes [refers to the leaves]
Flower Size .08" [2 mm]
Found in Antioquia department of Colombia in cloud forests at elevations around 2050 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with slender, erect, ramicauls enveloped by 4 to 5, shortly ciliate, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, purple beneath, broadly cordate, obtuse, shortly acuminate, cordate to subcordate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later spring on a filiform, congested, .24 to .36" [.6 to .9 cm] long, including the .2 to .4" [.5 to 1 cm] long peduncle, successively single, few flowered inflorescence.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orquideologia Vol 17 #3 pg 165 Luer & Escobar 1988 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXXII Luer 2012 Luer drawing fide; Orchids A Colombian Treasure Vol 3 Ortiz & Uribe 2019 drawing/photo fide;
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