Lepanthes posadae Luer & R.Escobar 1984 SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Mucronatae Luer 1996
Photos by © Bruno Larsen and his Flickr Orchid Photo Webpage
TYPE Photo by © Rodrigo Escobar/TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name Posada's Lepanthes [Colombian Orchid Nurseryman Current]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Colombia and Ecuador on the western slopes of the Andes at elevations around 1300 to 1900 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with an erect, slender ramicaul enveloped by 11 to 23, minutely ciliate lepanthiform sheaths carrying a single, apical, suberect to spreading, thinly coriaceous, convex, elliptical-ovate, acute, cuneate to rounded and contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a slender, congested, 1.2 to 2.6" [3 to 6.5 cm] long including the [1.5 to 5 cm] long peduncle, successively many flowered inflorescence arising on the back of the leaf.
Charaterized by the large habit , thin ovate, acuminate leaves with the congested inflorescence borne along the back side, green petals with a purple margin and a marginal, finger-like process and thin blades of the lip adherent over the column. The appendix is large, oblong and ciliate." LUer 1996
There are 3 other species within Cololmbia that are very similar, L janitor, L agglutinata and L pilosaures 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 # 5 pg 479 1984 drawing/photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Systematics of the Pleurothallidinae Vol 1 1986 drawing fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XIV 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 photo fide; W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
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