Lepanthes lilliputae Luer & R.Escobar 1988 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Breves Luer 1986 SERIES Breves Luer 1996

TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer © and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Liliputan Lepanthes [refers to its tiny habit]

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Norte de Santander department of Colombia and Carchi province of Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations around 3100 to 3300 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 3 to 5, minutely ciliate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, purple suffused, elliptical, subacute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter through spring on a slender, loose, to .24" [6 mm] long, successively single, 2 to 3 flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Lepanthes gnoma Luer & Hirtz 1996

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orquideologia Vol 17 #3 1988 drawing/photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XIV Systematics of Draconanthes, Lepanthes subgenus Marsipanthes and subgenus Lepanthes of Ecuador Luer 1996 as Lepanthes gnoma drawing fide; Flora of Ecuador No 88 Lepanthes and affiliates Dodson & Luer 2011 as Lepanthes gnoma drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXXII Luer 2012 drawing fide; Orchids A Colombian Treasure Vol 3 Ortiz & Uribe 2019 drawing/photo fide;

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