Lepanthes cornejoi Luer 2010 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
Photos by © Alexander Hirtz
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundantion at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name or Meaning Cornejo's Lepanthes [Ecuadorian Botanist at GUAY current]
Flower Size .08" [2 mm]
Found in Los Rios province of Ecuador at elevations around 600 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with slender, erect, ramicauls enveloped by 7 to 8, lepanthiform sheaths with ciliate ostia and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly ovate, acute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a slender, congested, .12 to .16" [3 to 4 cm] long, including the .8 to 1.2" [2 to 3 cm] long peduncle, successively single, few flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXXI Luer 2010 Luer drawing fide;
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