Lepanthes fuchsii Luer 1991 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Breves Luer 1986 SERIES Breves Luer 1996

TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Webpage

Common Name Fuchs' Lepanthes [American Nurseryman in south Florida and Orchid Collector 1900's]

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Bolivia without locational data as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 5 to 6, minutely ciliate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, purple suffused beneath, elliptical, obtuse, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a slender, loose, distichous, flexuous, 2.6" [9 cm] long including the 4.4" [11 cm] long peduncle, successively single, many flowered inflorescence.

"Distinguished by the long, loose, flexuous raceme greatly exceeded the small, elliptical leaves; entire, broad sepals with recurved, shortly caudate apices, the laterals singly veined, little reniform petals and a lip with thick, ovoid blades with short connectives and a protruding, broadly triangular appendix." Luer 2010

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Lindleyana Vol 6 #2: 70 Luer 1991 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXXI Lepanthes of Bolvia; Systematics of Octomeria Luer 2010 drawing fide;

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