Lepanthes fimbriatilabia J.S. Moreno, Gal.–Tar., Zuluaga 2021
SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
TYPE Photo/TYPE drawing by © J S Moreno and Phytotaxa 567 (2): 149–161 S Viera-Uribe & J S Moreno 2022 Two new species of Lepanthes (Pleurothallidinae, Orchidaceae) from the Alto de Ventanas, Colombia
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Common Name The Fringed Lip Lepanthes
Flower Size .12" [3 mm]
Found in Valle de Cauca department of Colombia in pastures along the border of secondary forests at elevations around 1700 to 1800 meters as a small sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with suberect to erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 10, dark brown, tightly fitting, lepanthiform sheaths, with a minutely acuminate, ciliated ostia and carrying a single, apical, coppery, erect, thickly coriaceous, ovate, obtuse, rounded and contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms at least in the later fall and early winter on a filiform peduncle .72 to 1" [1.8 to 2.5 cm] long, arising on the bottom of the leaf, rachis to .28" [7 mm] long, very congested, distichous, long-pedicellate, successively single, many-flowered inflorescence with acuminate, scabrous, shorter than the pedicel floral bract.
"Lepanthes fimbriatilabia resembles L. pecunialis , but it can be recognized by the transversely bilobed petals with the lower lobe pubescent and fimbriate, as well as the bilaminate lip strongly fimbriate along the margins with the blades oblong and falcate." Gal.–Tar., Zuluaga, J.S. Moreno & Mora-Aguilar 2021
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
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