Lepanthes scopulifera Luer & R.Escobar 1997 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
Photos by © Esteban Dominguez Vargas and his Flickr Orchid Photo Webpage
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Webpage
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Common Name The Brush Carrying Lepanthes [refers to the appendix]
Flower Size .12” [3 mm]
Found in Antioquia department of Colombia in cloud forests at elevations around 3200 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with very slender, weak, erect ramicauls enveloped by 8 qo 10, microscopically scabrous, tight fitting lepanthiform sheaths with acumiante apices and carrying a single, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, narrowly ovate, acute, acuminate, cuneate and contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later spring on a filiform, congested, secund, long pedicellate, to .56 to .68” [1.4 to 1.7 cm] long including the .44 to .56” [1.1 to 1.4 cm] long peduncle, successively single, several flowered inflorescence arising on the top of the leaf.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orquideologia Vol 20 #3 1997 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXXI Luer 2010 drawing fide; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 3 Ortiz & Uribe 2019 drawing
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