Lepanthes stelidilabia Luer & R.Escobar 1991 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
Photo by © Andres Posada and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
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EARLY
Common Name The Stelis Like Lip Lepanthes
Flower Size .16” [4 mm]
Found in Antioquia department of Colombia at elevations around 2430 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by around 7, close fitting, glabrous, nervose, compressed tubular sheaths with somewhat expanded apicesand carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late winter and early spring on an erect, loose, distichous, lengthening over time, to 2” [5 cm] long including the .6” [1.5 cm] long peduncle, successively several flowered inflorescence .
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Orquideologia Vol 18 #2 pg 146 Luer & Escobar 1991 drawing fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXXII Luer 2012 drawing fide; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 3 Ortiz & Uribe 2019 drawing/photo fide; Orquideas de Farallones de Cali Galindo-Tarazona, Haelterman, Zuluaga Trochez and Sebastian Moreno 2020 photo fide
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