Lepanthes tectorum Luer & Hirtz 1987 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes

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

EARLY

Common Name The Roofed Lepanthes [refers to the pair of blades of the lip over the column]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Napo province of Ecuador at elevations around 1000 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a slender, erect ramicaul enveloped by 8 to 10, tight glabrous lepanthiform sheaths with microscopically scabrous, long-acumiante ostia carrying a single, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, purple suffused beneath, elliptical-ovate, acute-acuminate , rounded to broadly cuneate to rounded and contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall and early winter on a filiform, very congested, secund, .92 to 1.12" [2.3 to 2.8 cm] long, successively many flowered inflorescence arising on the back side of the leaf.

"Similar to L grypha but L tectorum is distinguished by the more oblong leaves instead of narrowly ovate, shortly pubescent petals instead of long pubescent, broader blades of the lip, a tripartitr appendix instead of oblong with an apicle glandule and a thicker colum with a subapical stigma instead of a completely flat, ventral anther. Also similar to L reventador but L tectorum has long-pedicellate flowers on a raceme behind the leaf and the appendix is tripartite instead of on top of the leaf and the appendix is a minute filament." Luer 1996

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lindleyana 2: 147 Luer & Hirtz 1987 ; 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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