Lepanthes psomion Luer & Hirtz 1996 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Breves Luer 1986 SERIES Breves Luer 1996
Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Webpage
Photos by © Jean Marc Pallandre and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
EARLY 
Common Name The Tiny Bit Lepanthes [refers to the small flowers]
Flower Size .8" [2 mm]
Found in northwestern Ecuador in wet forests at elevations around 750 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte, with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 7 to 10, close fitting lepanthiform sheaths with microscopically ciliate ostia and carrying a single, erect, thinly coriaceous, linearly suffused with purple beneath, narrowly ovate, acuminate, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter and early spring on a filiform, very congested, distichous, .88" [22 mm] long, successively single, many flowered inflorescence arising on the back of the leaf with spiculate floral bracts.
CAUTION!! I am sure that the photo determination is incorrect. This photo cannot be L psomion in the series breves because of the reticulated, ovate suborbicular leaves [L psomion has narrowly ovate, acute to acuminate leaves, this one has suborbicular leaves, also Luer makes no mention of the reticulation which is quite obvious], as well as the lip which differs greatly from Luer's drawing of L psomion. I cannot see the lateral sepals to see if they are 1 veined which would keep it in the series breves, but if it has 2 veins in the lateral sepals then it seems closer to something in the series Lepanthes near L calodictyon.
Luer's drawing is absolutely correct as it is the type drawing
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XIV Systematics of Draconanthes, Lepanthes subgenus Marsipanthes and subgenus Lepanthes of Ecuador Luer 1996 drawing fide; Drawing not to photos; Flora of Ecuador No 88 Lepanthes and affiliates Dodson & Luer 2011 drawing not to photos
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