Lepanthes recurva Luer & Hirtz 1992 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Breves Luer 1986 SERIES Breves Luer 1996

TYPE drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Webpage

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Common Name The Recurved Lepanthes [refers to the short inflorescence]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in La Paz department of Bolivia in forests at elevations around 2000 meters as a small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 10 to 12 , dark lepanthiform sheaths with dilated, cilate ostia and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, often purple suffused, elliptical, acute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late spring on a arcuate, loose, .6" [1.5 cm] long including the .2” [5 mm] long peduncle, successively few flowered inflorescence.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Lindleyana 7: 114 Luer 1992; Drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXXI Lepanthes of Bolivia; Systematics of Octomeria Luer 2010 drawing fide;

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