Lepanthes privigna Luer & L.Jost 1999 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
photo by © Lou Jost and the Epidendra Orchid Website
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Stepdaughter Lepanthes [refers to its similarity to the widely distributed L wageneri]
Flower Size .12" [3 mm]
Found in Ecuador at elevations around 1450 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 5 to 6, glabrous lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, suberect, coriaceous, ovate, acute, rounded and abruptly contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a slender, arising on top of the leaf, distichous, congested, .68" [1.7 cm] long, successively single, many flowered inflorescence with a shorter than the pedicel floral bract.
Related to L wageneri but differs in the ovate, acute leavers, the ovate acute, slightly acuminate sepals with the laterals somewhat spreading. L wagneri in contrast has obtuse leaves and the sepals are subacute with the laterals nearly approximate.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVIII Systematics of Pleurothallis subsection Antenniferae, Longiracemosae, Macrophyllae-Racemosae and Subgenera Pseudsostelis and Acuminata Luer 1999drawing fide; Flora of Ecuador No 88 Lepanthes and affiliates Dodson & Luer 2011 drawing fide
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