Lepanthes hortensis Luer & R.Escobar 1988 SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Mucronatae Luer 1996
Photos in Jardin Antioquia 1/2016 by © Jay Pfahl
TYPE Photo by © Carl Luer
Photos by © Andres Posada and his Flickr Orchid Photo Webpage
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
LATER 
Common Name The Garden Lepanthes [latin for garden and refers to the town of Jardin near where the species was discovered]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Antioquia department of Colombia at elevations around 2800 meters as a miniature to small sized, cold growing epiphyte with slender, erect, more or less arching ramicauls enveloped by 10 to 17, minutely scabrous lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, suberect to spreading, thinly coriaceous, purple suffused beneath, elliptical-ovate, acute, long-acuminate, cuneate to rounded below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall through later spring on a filiform, congested, 1.6 to 2" [4 to 5 cm] long including the 1.2 to 1.6" [3 to 4 mm] long peduncle, successively single, many flowered inflorescence arising on top of the leaf.
Similar to L mucronata but differs in the large, pubescent, tongue-like appendix and also similar to L quandi but differs from it in being a larger plant, larger orange flowers and petals with a longer, slender, medial apiculum.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orquideologia Vol 17 #3 1988 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;
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