Lepanthes dictydion Luer & Hirtz 1985 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
Photo by © Ecuagenera and their Orchid Website
Side View of Flower Photo by © Lourens Grobler
Leaf and Flower Photo by © Jean Marc Pallandre and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
TYPE drawing by © Carl Luer
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EARLY
Common Name The Little Net Lepanthes [refers to the reticulate leaves]
Flower Size .1" [2 mm]
Found in the eastern lowlands of Ecuador and Peru in cloud forests at elevations 1400 to 1800 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with suberect to erect ramicauls enveloped by 6 to 8, long-ciliate, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, purple reticulated, suborbicular, rounded apically and obtusely apiculate, rounded basally and abruptly contracted into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late winter and early spring on a subdense, behind the leaf, .4" [1 cm] long, racemose, successively several flowered inflorescence.
"The round, purple reticulated leaves of this delicate, distinctive little species are borne by much longer, frail, long-ciliate stems. The subdense raceme is borne behind the leaf. THe sepals and l;obes of the petals are acute, the blades of the lip are narrowly ovate and from the cleft sinus emerges an "S" shped appendix." Luer1996
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * AOS Bulletin Feb 1985 Vol 54 #2 pg 160 Luer & Hirtz 1985 photo/drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XIV Systematics of Draconanthes, Lepanthes subgenus Marsipanthes and subgenus Lepanthes of Ecuador Luer 1996 drawing fide; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide; Flora of Ecuador No 88 Lepanthes and affiliates Dodson & Luer 2011 drawing fide
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