Lepanthes paramosolensis S.V.Uribe & B.T.Larsen 2014 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
Plant in situ Antioquia department of Colombia
TYPE Photos by © Sebastian Vieira and The Research Gate Website
Common Name The Paramo del Sol Lepanthes [refers to the location of the type collection]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Antioquia department of Colombia in subparamo at elevations around 3300 to 3500 meters as a medium to large sized, cold growing terrestrial or low level epiphyte with a robust, erect ramicaul enveloped by 5 to 15, microscopically scabrous along the ribs and borders of the lepanthiform sheaths with oblique, acuminate ostia and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, ovate to narrowly ovate, acute, acuminate, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring and fall on 1 to 12, arising on the back of the leaf, decurved, pendent, congested, distichous, peduncle slender, .6 to 1.2" [1.5 to 3 cm] long, rachis to 4" [10 cm] long, alternate and spirally arranged, successively single, many flowered inflorescence with cucculate, glabrous, shorter than the ovary floral bracts.
"This species is most similar to the Ecuadorian Lepanthes decurva Luer & Hirtz from which it differs by the cucculate floral bracts, the densely pubescent petals and by the lip connate to the middle of the column with a minute, shortly oblong, pilose appendix." Uribe & Larsen 2014
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Lepanthes paramosolensis, Una Nueva Especia Endemica de Colombia Orquideologia 31: 98 Uribe & Larsen 2014 drawing/photo fide; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 3 Ortiz & Uribe 2019 drawing fide
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