Lepanthes eros Luer & R.Escobar 1984 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Breves Luer 1986 SERIES Breves Luer 1996
Photo by © Gary Meyer and his Flickr Orchid Photo Webpage
Photo by © Sebastian Viera and his Flickr Orchid Photo Webpage
TYPE Drawing By © Carl Luer
Common Name The Eros Lepanthes [Greek Goddess of Love]
Flower Size .1" [2.5 mm]
Found in Antioquia department of Colombia in montane forests at elevations around 2150 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 3 to 4, ciliate, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, erect, coriaceous, purple suffused beneath, elliptic, obtuse, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a filiform, subdense, distichous, flexuous, to .1" [to 2.5 mm] long, successively flowered inflorescence arising behind the leaf and with echinate floral bracts.
"Lepanthes eros resembles the Ecuadorian species, Lepanthes equus-frisiae, Lepanthes pelorostele , L scrotifera and L rigidigitata, the Colombian species L abortiva, L vargasii, L isoceles, L micellilabia and L niphas and the Costa Rican L posthon, L spadariae and L vestgialis.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * American Orchid Society Bulletin Vol 53 No 2 1984AOS Bulletin Vol 53 No 2 Luer 1984 drawing/photo fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994 photo fide; Lankesteriana 17: 227 Moreno Vieira & Karremans 2017 drawing/photo fide; Orchids A Colombian Treasure Vol 3 Ortiz & Uribe 2019 drawing/photo fide;
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