Lepanthes glomerulosa Luer & Hirtz 1996 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes

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

EARLY

Common Name The Little Ball Carrying Lepanthes [refers to the appendix]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Morona Santiago province of Ecuador at elevations around 2800 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with a stout, erect ramicaul enveloped by 9 to 11, ciliate lepanthiform sheaths with widely dilated ostia and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, oblong, acute to acuminate, rounded and contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the early summer on a slender, congested, distichous, 1" [2.5 cm] long, successively many flowered inflorescence arising on the back of the leaf and carrying glabrous floral bracts.

"Lepanthes glomerulosa Luer & Hirtz and L calocerca have similar habits but the tails of the sepals of L. calocerca are much longer; the triangular lobes of the petals are subequal in length; and the appendix is bifid with one portion overlying the other. Luer & Larsen 2012

Synonyms

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; Flora of Ecuador No 88 Lepanthes and affiliates Dodson & Luer 2011 drawing fide; Harvard Papers in Botany, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 333 to 368 2012 MISCELLANEOUS NEW SPECIES IN THE PLEUROTHALLIDINAE (ORCHIDACEAE) Carlyle A. Luer and Bruno Larsen

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