Lepanthes gnoma Luer & Hirtz 1996 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Breves SERIES Breves Luer 1993 Drawing by Carl Luer © and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Dwarf Lepanthes [refers to its habit]

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Carchi Ecuador at elevations around 3300 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 3 to 5, minutely ciliate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, purple suffused, elliptical, subacute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on a slender, loose, to .24" [6 mm] long, successively single, 2 to 3 flowered inflorescence.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XIV Luer 1996 drawing fide; Flora of Ecuador No 88 Lepanthes and affiliates Dodson & Luer 2011 drawing fide

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