Lepanthes golondrina Luer & R.Escobar 1984 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
TYPE Photo Rodrigo Escobar/ TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Webpage
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EARLY 
Common Name The Swift-Like Lepanthes [refers to the resemblance of the lip to a swallow]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Antioquia department of Colombia at elevations around 1700 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 3, microscopically ciliate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, subcircular, rounded apically, rounded and contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late winter and early spring on a filiform, subdense, distichous, to 1.4 to 1.52" [3.5 to 3.7 cm] long including the .8 to .88" [2 to 2.2 cm] long peduncle, successively single, few flowered inflorescence held beyond the length of the leaf.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *AOS Bulletin 53[7]: 718, Luer & Escobar 1984 drawing/photo fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXXII Luer 2012 drawing fide; Orchids A Colombian Treasure Vol 3 Ortiz & Uribe 2019 drawing/photo fide; Orquideas de Farallones de Cali Galindo-Tarazona, Haelterman, Zuluaga Trochez and Sebastian Moreno 2020 photo fide
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