Lepanthes insolita Luer & R.Escobar 1988 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
TYPE Photo by Rodrigo Escobar/TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Webpage
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Common Name The Strange Lepanthes [refers to the unusual lip]
Flower Size .24" [6 mm]
Found in Antioquia department of Colombia in forests at elevations around 2400 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 6 to 7, tight fitting, microscopically scabrous lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, ovate, acute, rounded and contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later summer on a filiform, dense, distichous, .28" [1.2 to 1.5 cm] long including the .24 to .36" [6 to 9 mm] long peduncle, successively single, several flowered inflorescence arising on the back of the leaf and has muriculate floral bracts.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orquideologia Vol 17 #3 1988 Luer & Escobar 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 fide;
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