Lepanthes tortilis Luer & Hirtz 1996 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
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TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Twisted Lepanthes [refers to the narrowly long-attenuate apex of the leaves]
Flower Size .08" [2 mm]
Found in Imambura province of Ecuador at elevations around 1250 to 1300 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a very slender, erect to suberect ramicaul enveloped by 7 to 12, close fitting, glabrous lepanthiform sheaths with microscopically scabrous ostia carrying a single, apical, spreading, thinly coriaceous, suborbicular, the obtuse apex, contracted into a slender attenuateed, twisted acumen, rounded and contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on a filiform, congested, disitchous, to 1/2" [1.2 cm] long, successively several flowered inflorescence arising on the top of the leaf with lightly echinate floral bracts.
"Characterized by the very thin, threadlike ramicauls, spreading, orbicular leaves with a long narrow, twisted apical segment, pubescent petals, a pubescent outer margin lip and a protruding cornicopia like appendix." 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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