Lepanthes hirpex Luer & R.Escobar 1985 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
Photo by © Ron Parsons
TYPE Photo by Rodrigo Escobar/TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Webpage
Common Name The Rake Lepanthes [refers to the appearance of the long-pedicellate rachis]
Flower Size .12" [3 mm]
Found in Colombia at elevations of 2200 to 2500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with erect to suberect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 5 to 6, close, microscopically ciliate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, thickly coriaceous, erect, ovate, subacute, rounded and abruptly contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a filiform, congested, distichous, 1.2" [3 cm] long, successively flowered inflorescence arising on the back the leaf
Similar to L larvina but differs in the deeply connate lateral sepals, broader lobes of the petals and an appendix in the sinus of the lip instead of on the external surface below the sinus
"Similar to L larvina but differs in the deeply connate lateal sepals, broader lobes of the petals and an appendix in the sinus of the lip instead of on the external surface below the sinus." Luer & Escobar 1998
CAUTION I have my doubts about the veracity of Parsons photo determination so please use with caution, the drawing and type photo are absolutely correct.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * AOS Bulletin Vol 54 No 5 Luer & Escobar 1985 drawing/photo fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXXII Luer 2012 drawing hmm;
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