Lepanthes niesseniae Luer 2003 SUBGENUS Marsipanthes SECTION Felinae Luer 1986
Photo by © Jay Pfahl
Photo by © Lourens Grobler
TYPE drawing by © Carl Luer
LATER 
Common Name Niessen's Lepanthes [Colombian Orchid Nursery Owners Current]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Valle de Cauca department of Colombia without collection data as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 12 to 15 microscopically ciliate, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, purple suffused, thinly coriaceous, elliptiacl-ovate, acute, slightly acuminate, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later summer on a slender, very congested, secund, 2.5 to 2.8 cm] long including the .68 to .8" long peduncle, successively single, many flowered inflorescence.
"Characterized by a medium sized, caespitose habit and a very congested, successively flowered, secund raceme shorter than the elliptical leaf. The dorsal sepal is larger than the acute, triangular, lateral sepals. The petals are reminiscent of those of L lucifer. The upper lobes are prominent, thick and bossselated. The minute lip has verrucose, cuneate lobes that flank the column." Luer 2003
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Revista de la Sociedad Boliviana de Botanica 4[3]: 3-24 Luer 2003 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXXII Luer 2012 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 83 #3 2014 photo fide; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 3 Ortiz & Uribe 2019 drawing/photo fide;
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