Lepanthes equicalceolata Luer & R.Escobar 1993 SUBGENUS Marsipanthes SECTION Felinae Luer 1986 <
Photo by © Pieter C. Brouwer and his Nature Photo Website
Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name or Meaning The Little Horse Shoe Lepanthes [refers to the lip]
Flower Size .2" [6mm]
Found in Choco' department of Colombia in cloud forests at elevations around 2000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 7 to 8, minutely ciliate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a subdense, secund, 1.2" [3 cm] long, successively several flowered, racemose, inflorescence that is longer than the leaf and the floral bracts are slightly muricate.
"Distinguished by the congested, long-pedicellate raceme that eventually surpasses the tip of the leaf, the spiculate ovary and the horse-shoe shaped lip. The dorsal sepal is concave and broadly ovate with a short, erect tail. The lateral sepals are deeply connate to the dorsal sepal but the sepaline cup formed is not deep as in L felis with the column and lip within a cavity. The petals are erect, carinate and oblong and only half as long as that in L felis. The limbs of the lip are truncate and a minute apiculum is present." Luer 1996
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XIV Systematics of Draconanthes, Lepanthes subgenus Marsipanthes and subgenus Lepanthes of Ecuador Luer 1996 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXXII Luer 2012 drawing fide; Orchids A Colombian Treasure Vol 3 Ortiz & Uribe 2019 drawing/photo fide;
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