Lepanthes mirador Luer & Hirtz 1996 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
Photos by © Andreas Kay and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The El Mirador Lepanthes [An area in Ecuador where the species was discovered]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Cundinamarca department of Colombia and Carchi province of Ecuador at elevations around 3300 to 3600 meters as a probable miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with a slender, erect? ramicaul carrying a single, apical, erect?, coriaceous, elliptical, acute to lightly acuminate, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a filiform, dense, distichous, 1.4" [3.5 cm] long, successively many flowered inflorescence arising on the back of the leaf.
"Distinguished by the narrowly elliptical leaf, a congested raceme borne behind the leaf, acute, shortly acuminate, denticulate sepals with the laterals shrotly connate, petals with a long-acuminate upper lobe and a very short, transversely obtuse lower lobe and a lip with oblong blades and an appendix witha bilobed segment. L tungurahuae is Distinguished from L mirador by the broader, acuminate leaf, deeply connate lateral sepals and an entire appendix." Luer 1996
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; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXXII Luer 2012 drawing fide; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 3 Ortiz & Uribe 2019 as L aff mirador photos ??;
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