Lepanthes teaguei Luer 1996 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
Photo courtesy of © Lourens Grobler
TYPE by © Carl Luer
Common Name Teague's Lepanthes [American Botanist in Ecuador Current]
Flower Size .3" [8mm]
Found in Ecuador in wet montane forests at elevations of 1450 to 1650 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 9 to 16 close, glabrous, lepantiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical-ovate, acute to subacute, basally rounded and contracted into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a congested, distichous, slender, 3.2" [8 cm] long, successively many flowered inflorescence held behind the leaf.
"Distinguished by the large habit with large red flowers produced in a congested raceme held behind the leaf. The sepals are shortly pubescent within with the laterals broad, obtuse and concave." Luer 1996
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XIV Systematics of Draconanthes, Lepanthes subgenus Marsipanthes and subgenus Lepanthes of Ecuador Luer 1996 drawing fide; Flora of Ecuador No 88 Lepanthes and affiliates Dodson & Luer 2011 drawing fide
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