Lepanthes quasimodo Luer 2009 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
Photo by © Alexander Hirtz
drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Webpage
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Common Name The Quasimodo Lepanthes [refers to the fancied appearance of the flowers to Hugo's Quasimodo with the tails of the lateral sepals as his legs]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Morona-Santiago province of Ecuador at elevations around 800 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 10 to 13, ciliate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, dark purple, ovate, acute, sulcate with the lateral halves convex, microscopically cellular-glandular apically, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late summer and early fall on filiform, erect, congested, secund, distichous, .72 to .88" [1.8 to 2.2 cm] long including the .32 to .48" [8 to 12 mm] long peduncle, successively single, several flowered inflorescence on back of the leaf with echinate floral bracts.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXX Luer 2009 drawing fide;
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