Lepanthes llanganatensis Luer & Hirtz 1990 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
Photo by © Lou Jost
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Llanganates Lepanthes [A mountain range in Ecuador]
Flower Size .32" [8 mm]
Found in central Ecuador at elevations around 2800 to 3000 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with a stout, erect ramicaul enveloped by 8 to 11, blackish, coarsely ciliate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, oblong-ovate, subacute, lightly acuminate, rounded and contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring and summer on a filiform, dense, distichous, .92" [2.3 cm] long, successively flowered inflorescence arising on the back of the leaf.
"Recognized by the dark, coarsely ciliate sheaths of the ramicauls, short, congested racemes, broad sepals, the laterals three-veined, cellular-papular, pointed, falcate lobes of the petals, ovate acute blades of the lip and a small bisegmented appendix. It is related to L callisto of northernmost Ecuador.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XIV Systematics of Draconanthes, Lepanthes subgenus Marsipanthes and subgenus Lepanthes of Ecuador Luer 1996 drawing fide; Flora of Ecuador No 88 Lepanthes and affiliates Dodson & Luer 2011 drawing fide
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