Lepanthes crescentiformis Luer 2010 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Breves Luer 1986 SERIES Breves Luer 1996

TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundantion at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name or Meaning The Crescent Shaped Lepanthes

Flower Size .08" [2 mm]

Found in Cochabamba department of Bolivia at elevations around 2500 to 2900 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 8 to 11, ciliate, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, ovate, acute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on 1 to 2, slender, loose, slightly flexuous, .92" [2.3 cm] long, including the .2" [5 mm] long peduncle, successively single, few flowered inflorescence arising on the back side of the leaf.

"Similar to L minutipetala but differs in the reniform and densely short-pubescent with the ends of the lobes rounded and incurved" Luer 2010

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXXI Lepanthes of Bolivia; Systematics of Octomeria Luer 2010 Luer drawing fide;

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