Lepanthes stenoscleros Schltr. 1920 SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Elongatae 1993

Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The ? Lepanthes

Flower Size

Found in Antioquia department of Colombia without collection data as a miniature sized epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 10 to 12 lepanthiform sheaths with broadly ovate acuminate, minutely scabrous margin ostia and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical-lanceolate, acuminate, lightly tridenticulate, cuneate below into the narrowly subpetiolate base leaf that blooms on 1 to 4, erect, lax, flexuous, erect, loose, distichous, lengthening over time, to 52” [1.3 cm] long, successively 10 to 20 flowered inflorescence with ellipitc-cucullate, glabrous, shortly acuminate floral bracts.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 7: 99 Schlechter 1920 drawing fide

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