Lepanthes gloris Luer & Hirtz 1998 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
Photos by © Andreas Kay and his Flickr Orchid Photo Webpage
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer and Epidendra Orchid Webpage
Common Name The Sister-In Law Lepanthes [refers to its close similarity to L generi]
Flower Size .12" [3 mm]
Found in Carchi province of Ecuador at elevations around 2100 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with very slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 10 to 11, minutely ciliate, lepanthiform sheaths with acuminate ostia and carrying a single, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, purple suffused, ovate, acute, acuminate, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a slender, congested, distichous, 1.2" [3 cm] long, successively many flowered inflorescence arising on the top of the leaf with glaberous floral bracts.
" Distinguished by the very narrow leaves, short pedicellate, distichous racemes, broader sepals and petals and a lip with the anterior margins of the connectives as long as the posterior margins." Luer 1998
CAUTION The photos above are very close to if not actually being L gloris, the drawing is absolutely correct.
Synonyms
References Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XIV Systematics of Draconanthes, Lepanthes subgenus Marsipanthes and subgenus Lepanthes of Ecuador Luer 1996 drawing fide; * Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVI Systematics of Pleurothallis subgenera 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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