Lepanthes equus-frisiae Pupulin & H. Medina. 2011 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Breves Luer 1986 SERIES Breves Luer 1996
TYPE Photo/type Drawing by © Pupulin and The Epidendra Website
Common Name The Frisian Horse Lepanthes [refers to the flowers similarity to a the cheval de frise a type of military defense obstacle in the 1500's]
Flower Size .24" [6 mm]
Found in Costa Rica in cold cloud forests at elevations around 2400 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 6 to 12, lepanthiform sheaths with slightly dilated, subacuminate ostia and carrying a single, apical, erect, subcoriaceous, flat, slightly conduplicate, narrowly ovate-elliptic, minutely retuse with rounded apicule, shortly cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on a racemose, disitichous, fliliform, terete, to .7" [1.75 cm] long, zigzag, successively flowered inflorescence holding the flowers above the leaf.
"Lepanthes equus-frisiae resembles the Ecuadorian species, Lepanthes pelorostele , L scrotifera and L rigidigitata, the Colombian species L abortiva, L vargasii, L eros, L isoceles, L micellilabia and L niphas and the Costa Rican L posthon, L spadariae and L vestigialis
Synonyms Lepanthes equus-frisiae Pupulin & H.Medina, Orchideen J. 17: 116 (2010), contrary to Art.37.7 ICBN (2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *https://www.epidendra.com/taxones/Lepanthes/Lepanthes%20equus-frisiae/Lepanthes%20equus-frisiae%202010/lepanthes_equusfrisiae_2010.pdf">OrchideenJ. 17(3): 118. 2010 nom. inval; Lindleyana in Orchids, Mag. Amer. Orch. Soc. 80: 180. 2011 drawing/photo fide; Lankesteriana 17: 227 Moreno Vieira & Karremans 2017 drawing/photo fide;
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