Lepanthes pilosiaures Luer & R.Escobar 1984 SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Mucronatae Luer 1996
Photos by © Bruno Larsen and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and AOS Bulletin Vol 53;262 1984
Common Name or Meaning The Hairy Eared Lepanthes [refers to the pubescent petals]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Antioquia department of Colombia at elevations around 2700 meters as a miniature to small sized, cold growing epiphyte with slender erect ramicauls enveloped by 8 to 10, close, microscopically scabrous, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, purple suffused beneath, ovate, acute, acuminate, minutely apicaulate, rounded below into the contracted petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on a filiform, very congested, 1.08 to 1.4" [2.7 to 3.5 cm] long including the .48 to .8" [1.2 to 2 cm] long peduncle, successively flowered inflorescence arising on the back of the leaf
Similar to L mucronata, but has hairy petals.
Also related to L abitaguae, L pelyx, L corrugata, L ortegae and L rhodophylla.
There are 3 other species within Cololmbia that are very similar, L janitor, L posadae and L agglutinata which all have petals subequal in length and an uncinate process between the lobes.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * AOS Bulletin Vol 53;262 1984 photo/drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXXII Luer 2012 drawing fide; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 3 Ortiz & Uribe 2019 drawing/photo fide;
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