Lepanthes generi Luer & Hirtz 1998 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
Photos by © Andreas Kay and his Flickr Orchid Photo Webpage
TYPE Drawing Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Son in Law Lepanthes [refers to the close relationship with L gloris]
Flower Size .12" [3 mm]
Found in northwestern Ecuador at elevations around 2100 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with a very slender, erect ramicaul enveloped by 9 to 10, ciliate lepanthiform sheaths with acuminate ostia and carrying a single, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, ovate, acute, acuminate, narrowly cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a slender, congested, distichous, 1.4" [3.5 cm] long, successively flowered inflorescence arising on the top of the leaf and carrying glabrous floral bracts.
"Distinguished by the broader leaves, long-pedicellate, distichous racemes, narrower sepals and petals and a lip with the anterior margin of the connectives much shorter than the posterior margin." Luer 1998
CAUTION The photos above are close and may actually be L generi but please use with caution! The bottom lobes to the petals are too long and the column does not seem right. This orchid and L gloris are quite similar. The Drawing is absolutely correct.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVI Systematics of Pleurothallis SUBGEN Crocodeilanthe, Rhynchopera and Talpinaria Luer 1998 drawing fide; Flora of Ecuador No 88 Lepanthes and affiliates Dodson & Luer 2011 drawing fide
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