~Lepanthes rabei Foldats 1968 See - Lepanthes aquila-borussiae Rchb.f. 1854 Photo by © Ecuagenera Orchid Website

Common Name Rabe's Lepanthes [American Original CoCollector of species 1900's]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in northeastern Colombia and northwestern Venezuela at elevations of 2700 to 2900 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte, with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 6 to 9, lepanthiform sheaths with acuminate, ciliate ostia and carrying a single, erect, thinly coriaceous, narrowly lanceolate, subacuminate, tridenticulate, attenuate below into the shortly petiolate base leaf that blooms on various, slender, congested, distichous, .68 to 1.4" [1.7 to 3.5 cm] long, successively single, few flowered inflorescence.

!!!!!!!!!!!!CAUTION!!! I cannot verify this photo determination, does not fit Foldat's original drawing so use with extreme caution. Also Luer feels that this species is synomonous with Lepanthes aquila-borussiae and I have to agree after seeing both Foldat's and Rchbf.'s drawings

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Acta Bot. Venez. 3: 341 Foldats 1968 drawing fide Flora de Venezuela Volumen XV Parte 2 Foldats 1970 Foldats Drawing not; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 4 Dunsterville & Garay 1966 as L aquila-borussiae drawing ok; Orchids of Venezuela An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 as L aquila-borussiae drawing ok; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994 photo fide; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing ok;

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