Lepanthes superposita Schltr. 1920 SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Elongatae 1993
Photos by © Sebastian Moreno and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Situated Above Lepanthes [refers to the prolific habit]
Flower Size .2” [5 mm]
Found in Cundinamarca, Cauca and Narino departments of Colombia at elevations around 2800 to 3200 meters as a medium sized, cold growing epiphyte with erect, slender, prolific ramicauls enveloped by 5 to 7, lepanthiform sheaths minutely ciliate at the ostia and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, acute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall and winter on a, filiform, congested, distichous, .4 to 64” [1 to 1.6 cm] long including the .2 to .8” [5 to 8 mm] long peduncle, successively many flowered inflorescence arising on the back of the leaf
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIX Luer 2007 drawing fide; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 3 Ortiz & Uribe 2019 drawing fide
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