Lepanthes saccata Luer & R.Escobar 1988 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
Photos by © Andres Posada and his Flickr Orchid Photo Webpage
Closer Ventanas Jardin Colombia 1/2016
Photos by © Jay Pfahl
Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at ther Jany Renz Herbaria Webpage
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Common Name The Pouched Lepanthes [refers to the deeply concave appendix]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Antioquia and Choco’ departments of Colombia in cloud forests at elevations around 2550 to 2680 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with very slender, suberect ramicauls enveloped by 5 to 10, thin, minutely scabrous lepanthiform sheaths with long-acuminate apices and carrying a single, apical, spreading, thinly coriaceous, elliptical, slightly conduplicate, acute, long-acuminate, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later spring through later summer on a filiform, congested, to .32" [8 mm] long including the .12” [3 mm] long peduncle, successively few flowered inflorescence arisng on top of the leaf.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orquideologia Vol 17 #3 1988 drawing/photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXXII Luer 2012 drawing fide; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 3 Ortiz & Uribe 2019 drawing/photo fide;
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