Lepanthes inca Thoerle & Turkel 2013 SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Elongatae 1993
Photos by © Egon Krogsgaard
Photo by © Kazutoshi Moriya
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Common Name The Inca Lepanthes
Flower Size .4" [1 cm] wide - 1" [2.5 cm] long
Found in Huanuco department of Peru at higher elevations as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with slender, more or less erect stems enveloped by 4 to 6 minutely scabrous, lepanthiform sheaths with dilated ostia with acuminate apices carrying a single, erect, coriaceous, elliptic, minutely triapiculate apex, cuneate below into the petioalte base leaf that blooms in the late summer and fall on an erect, longer than the leaf, peduncle 1.6 to 2.6" [4 to 6.5 cm] long, to 3.6" [9 cm] long, overall, rachis fractiflex, lax, successively single, to at least 10 flowered inflorescence with minutely verrucose, acuminate, shorter than the ovary floral bracts.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchid Digest 77: 66 Thoerle & Turkel 2013 photos/drawing fide
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