Lepanthes floresii Luer & Hirtz 1991 SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Elongatae 1993
Photo by © Alexander Hirtz
Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
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Common Name Flores' Lepanthes [Ecuadorian Orchid Enthusiast and discoverer of species current]
Flower Size .12" [3 mm]
Found in southeastern Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations around 2700 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with a slender, erect ramicaul enveloped by 3 to 4, minutely ciliate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical-ovate, obtuse, cuneate and contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later summer and early fall on a filiform, loose, distichous, lightly flexuous, to 3.8" [to 9.5 cm] long, successively single, several flowered inflorescence.
Similar to L caudata, L jimburae, L paradoxa, L synema, and L vermicularis. but characterized by the long, loose raceme of much smaller orange flowers. that have obtuse apiculate sepals and an obtuse, oblong appendix.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XIV Systematics of Draconanthes, Lepanthes subgenus Marsipanthes and subgenus Lepanthes of Ecuador Luer 1996 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 photo fide; Flora of Ecuador No 88 Lepanthes and affiliates Dodson & Luer 2011 drawing fide
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