Lepanthes setifera Luer & R.Escobar 1984 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
Photo by © Louren Grobler
Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website
Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt ©.
TYPE by © Carl Luer
Common Name or Meaning The Bristle Bearing Lepanthes [refers to the bristly appendix]
Flower Size .2" [3mm]
Found in southern Colombia and western Ecuador in wet forests at elevations around 1200 to 1650 meters as a miniature to just small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 9 to 18, minutely ciliate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, often suffused with purple beneath, ovate, acute, lightly acuminate, cuneate to rounded below and contracted into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a slender, congested, to 2" [to 5 cm] long including the .4 to 1” [1 to 2.5 cm] long peduncle, successively many flowered, racemose inflorescence arising behind the leaf with muricate, as long as to a bit longer than the pedicel floral bracts.
"The small flowers are similar to the Central American L disticha but L setifera is distinguished by the congested raceme shorter than the ovate, acuminate leaf [instead of elliptical, non-acuminate]. The sepals are transluscent and acute and the petals are greenish bordered in purple. The lip is most distinctive with the slender, bristle-like appendix." Luer 1996
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * American Orchid Society Bulletin 53[8]: 820, Luer & Escobar 1984 drawing/photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XIV Systematics of Draconanthes, Lepanthes subgenus Marsipanthes and subgenus Lepanthes of Ecuador Luer 1996 drawing fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 2 COS 1991 photo fide; Flora of Ecuador No 88 Lepanthes and affiliates Dodson & Luer 2011 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXXII Luer 2012 drawing fide; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 3 Ortiz & Uribe 2019 drawing good; Orquideas de Farallones de Cali Galindo-Tarazona, Haelterman, Zuluaga Trochez and Sebastian Moreno 2020 photo fide
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
