Lepanthes fonnegrae Luer & R.Escobar 1993 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
Photos by © Marni Terkel
Type photo by © Rodrigo Escobar and The Epidendra Webpage
LATER
Common Name The Florencia Lepanthes [reference unclear]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Antioquia department of Colombia at elevations around 2500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 4, microscopically ciliate-scabrous lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, obovate, obtuse to rounded and cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on a slender, erect, loose, 1" [2.5 cm] long including the .6" [1.5 cm] long peduncle, successively single, few flowered inflorescence that carry the flowers beyond the leaf.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orquideología 19(1): 25-27 Luer & Escobar 1993 drawing fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994 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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