Lepanthes seegeri Luer 1987 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
Photo by © Bogarin and Ecuagenera Orchid Website
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Epidendra Website
Common Name Seeger's Lepanthes [German Cocollector of species and Stanhopinae expert current]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Chiriqui provinc eof Panama Panama in montane forests at elevations of 1600 to 1700 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with selnder, erect ramicauls enveloped by 10-12 pale, long-ciliate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical-ovate, subacute to obtuse, broadly cuneate and contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on 1 to 2, borne behind the leaf, peduncle filiform, .48" [1.2 cm] long, congested, distichous, successively single, many flowered inflorescence with sparsely ciliate, longer than the pedicel floral bracts.
"This distinctive species is easily recognized by the markedly dilated ostia of the long-ciliate, cauline sheaths; broadly ovate, deeply connate sepals; more or less hatchet-shaped upper lobes of long-ciliate petals; and a bifid lip with oblique, triangular lobes embracing the short, thick, column. The laminae are reduced to thickened, long-ciliate, lateral margins of the lobes. A long, slender, pubescent appendix protrudes from a shallow sinus beneath the stigma." Carl Luer 1987
Synonyms
References *Orchidee (Hamburg) 38: 60. 1987 Drawing fide Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas 6(2 370 Bogarin & C M Sm. 2012
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