Lepanthes mayordomoensis L.Jost & Luer 2005 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
Photo by © Lou Jost
Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
EARLY
Common Name The Cerro Mayordomo Lepanthes [A hill where the species occurs in Ecuador]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Tungurahua province of Ecuador at elevations around 2800 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing, caepistose epiphyte with a slender, erect ramicaul enveloped by to 6 to 9, tight fitting, sparsely ciliate, dark gray lepanthiform sheaths with abruptly dilated ostia and carrying a single, apical, suberect, thinly coriaceous, elliptical, acute-acuminate, rounded and sharply contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the early summer on a filiform, arising on the back of the leaf congested, distichous, .92" [2.3 cm] long, successively many flowered inflorescence with longer than the pedicel floral bract.
"Closely resembles L tungurahua but is immediately distinguished by the wing-like blades of the lip. The pincer-like bilobed apex of the appendix is also distinctive." Luer 2005
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 drawing fide; Flora of Ecuador No 88 Lepanthes and affiliates Dodson & Luer 2011 drawing fide
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