Lepanthes helgae Luer & R.Escobar 1991 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
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Photos by © Doug Goldman and the J & L Orchid Website
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
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Common Name Helga's Lepanthes [Mrs Koniger German along with her husband co-discovered the species]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Antioquia department of Colombia in cloud forests at elevations around 2250 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 6 to 7 microscopically ciliate-scabrous lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute to obtuse, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late winter and early spring on a slender, loose, 1.4 to 2.6" [3.5 to 6.5 cm] long, including the .6" [1.5 cm] long peduncle, succcessively few flowered inflorescence.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Orquideologia Vol 18 #1 1991 drawing fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 2 COS 1991 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXXII Luer 2012 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 86 #2 2017 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 86 #5 2017 photo fide; Orchids A Colombian Treasure Vol 3 Ortiz & Uribe 2019 drawing/photo fide;
Checked Luer OK
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