Lepanthes deliqua Luer 1984 SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Elongatae 1993

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

LATE EARLIER

Common Name The Lacking Lepanthes [refers to the total abscence of the body and appendix of the lip]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Pinchincha and Chimborazo provinces of Ecuador at elevations around 2400 to 2800 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 5 to 7, minutely ciliate, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical-oblong, obtuse, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on a loose, flexuous, progressively lengthening, racemose, 1 to 2.4" [2.5 to 6 cm] long, including the .4" [1 cm] long peduncle, successively single, several flowered inflorescence.

"Distinguished by the loose, flexuous raceme that surpasses the oblong leaf, acuminate, denticulate sepals, narrowly transverse petals and a lip with rounded blades borne by slender connectives connate sirectly to the column above the middle without forming a body or appendix." Luer 1996

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Phytologia 55: 181. Luer & Vasquez 1984; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XIV Systematics of Draconanthes, Lepanthes subgenus Marsipanthes and subgenus Lepanthes of Ecuador Luer 1996 drawing fide;

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