Lepanthes katleri Luer 1991 SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Elongatae 1993
Photo by Jay Pfahl
Photo courtesy of Lisa Thoerle
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer and Lindleyana 6: 73 Luer 1991 and the AOS Website
Common Name Katler's Lepanthes [Named in honor of Dr. Ernest I. Katler of Kensington, California, who discovered this species.]
Flower Size 1/5" [5 mm]
Found in Peru and the Amazonas state of Brazil in the lower levels of the cloud forests at elevations of 1800 to 2000 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped basally by several lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, elliptic, subacute to obtuse, coriaceous, basally clasping leaf that blooms in the spring on a pedunculate, 2" [5 cm] long, fractiflex, loosely several flowered inflorescence with the flower produced one by one in succession over time.
Similar to L revoluta but it has non-erose sepals, the oblong, subsigmoid petals and the flabellate lobes of the lip with a different appendix." Luer 2001
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Lindleyana 6: 73 Luer 1991 drawing fide; SELBYANA Volume 22(2) 111 2001; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 672 Bennett & Christenson 2001 drawing fide; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide
Checked type Drawing W3Tropicos OK
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