Lepanthes didyma Luer & Hirtz 1996 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
Photo by © Alexander Hirtz
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Two Equal Part Lepanthes [refers to the shape of the petals]
Flower Size .12" [3 mm]
Found in Pichincha province of Ecuador at elevations around 1000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a slender, erect ramicaul enveloped by minutely ciliate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, broadly elliptical, obtuse, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on a slender, congested, distichous, .92" [2.3 cm] long, successively several flowered inflorescence arising on the back of the leaf with imbricating floral bracts.
"Similar to L pecunialis but L didyma is distinguished by the large petals with forked, diverging obes and a suborbicular lip that embraces the column and is cleft antiorly." Luer 1996
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XIV Systematics of Draconanthes, Lepanthes subgenus Marsipanthes and subgenus Lepanthes of Ecuador Luer 1996 drawing fide; Flora of Ecuador No 88 Lepanthes and affiliates Dodson & Luer 2011 drawing fide
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