Lepanthes exaltata Luer & R.Escobar 1984 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
Photo by © Jorge Mario Munera
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Webpage
Common Name The Exalted Lepanthes [refers to the Superior qualities of the plant]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Norte de Santander department of Colombia at elevations around 2670 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with erect then arching, slender ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 4, minutely ciliate, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, erect, elliptical, subacute to obtuse, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a filiform, flexible, flexuous, lax, , 2.4 to 2.8" [6 to 7 cm] long including the .4 to .8" [1 to 2 mm] long peduncle, successively single, several flowered inflorescence.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Amer. Orchid Soc. Bull. 53: 370 Luer & Escobar 1984 Drawing/photo fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 2 COS 1991 photo 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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