Lepanthes liesiae B.T.Larsen 2014 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
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TYPE Drawing by © Bruno Larsen https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Lepanthes-liesiae-BTLarsen-A-Segment-of-inflorescence-with-one-flower-in-frontal_fig2_291344068 Website
LATE
EARLY
Common Name Lies' Lepanthes [n honor of Lies Steel from Borgerhout, Belgium current]
Flower Size .1" [2.5 mm]
Found in Loja province of Ecuador in dense, remnant cloud forests at elevations around 2000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 3 to 6, microscopically scabrous lepanthiform sheaths with the oblique, acuminate, dilated, ostia and carrying a single, erect, thickly coriaceous, ovate, acute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late summer and early fall on a racemose, erect, longer than the leaf, arching above the middle, arising on either side of the leaf, peduncle filiform, .024" [.6 mm] long, .2" [5 mm] long overall, rachis .176" [4.4 mm] long, subdense, successively single, many flowered inflorescence with muriculate, much shorter than the ovary floral bracts.
Lepanthes liesiae is characterized by slender, erect ramicauls with semi-terete leaves, a sub-dense inflorescence with flowers with carinate-spiculate dorsal and lateral sepals with coarsely-ciliate margins. From the other species with semi-terete leves this species is most similar to Lepanthes protuberans from Morona-Santiago and Zamora-Chinchipe provinces of Ecuador. Lepanthes liesiae can be distinguished from the later by the following set of characters: the presence of a minute triangular, pubescent appendix at the obtuse sinus; a thick, densely pubescent rostellum, and most remarkably by the transverse ventral stigma with two apical, large lateral lobes on each side of the anther." B T Larsen 2014
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Phytotaxa 175: 277 Larsen 2014 drawing/photo fide;
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