Lepanthes echinata Luer & Cloes 2001 SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Elongatae 1993

Side View of Flower Photos by © Patrick & Martine Cloes and their Pleurothallid Webpage

Lip Detail Photo by © Bruno Larsen and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website

TYPE Drawing TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and Selbyana Webpage

Common Name The Prickly Lepanthes

Flower Size .2" [5mm]

Found in Peru in cloud forests at elevations around 2900 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 4 to 5, mcroscopically ciliate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, broadly elliptical, obtuse, broadly cuneate and contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on a slender, peduncle .9" [2 cm] long, longer than the leaf, rachis .8" [2 cm] long, lax, successivly single, few flowered inflorescnce with floral bracts as long as the pedicel. .

"This species is closely related to Bolivian Lepanthes nycteris, but the flowers are easily distinguished by the deeply concave, orbicular dorsal sepal. As in L. nycteris, the synsepal is con-cave in the basal third above which it is convex, where the sides recurve. The apices are contract-ed into acute tails. The lobes of the lip are tri-angular and retrorse." Luer 2001

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * SELBYANA Volume 22(2) 107 2001 drawing fide

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