Lepanthes jostii Luer 1999 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
Photos by Morley Read and His Nature Photo website
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name Jost's Lepanthes [Physicist, Biologist and Artist in Ecuador current]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Tungurahua province of Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations around 2300 to 2900 meters as a small sized, cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect, slender ramicaul enveloped by 13 to 14, acuminate, glabrous, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, elliptical, abruptly acuminate, rounded below and abruptly contracted into the petiolate base leaf the blooms in the fall and winter on a disitchous, congested, to 1.2" [3.1 cm] long, racemose, successively many flowered inflorescence arising from behind the leaf with acuminateshorter than the ovary floral bracts.
"Similar to L actias-luna, L athena and L lloensis but differs by the broad sepals, glabrous petals with the upper lobe shortly tailed and the lower lobe long-tailed and a lip with the blades hemispherical and a small bifid appendix." Luer 1999
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Flora of Ecuador No 88 Lepanthes and affiliates Dodson & Luer 2011 drawing fide;
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