Lepanthes sillarensis Schltr. 1913 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes

TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Mt Sillar Lepanthes [A mountain in Bolivia]

Flower Size .12” [3 mm]

Found in Bolivia in cloud forests at elevations around 1300 to 1750 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 5 to 6, minutely ciliate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, spreading to suberect, thinly coriaceous, elliptical, acute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring and summer on a filiform, loosely below, secund and dense above, to 1.48 to 1.6” [3.7 to 4 cm] long including the .28 to .4” [7 to 10 mm] long peduncle, successively single, several flowered inflorescence arising on the back side of the leaf.

Synonyms Lepanthes ligulata Luer & Hirtz 1992

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Lindleyana 7: 111 Luer 1992 as L ligulata Drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXXI Luer 2010 drawing fide;

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