Lepanthes transparens Luer 1983 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes<
Photos by © Andreas Kay
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
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Common Name The Transparent Lepanthes [refers to the thin, membraneous blades of the lip]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in southwestern Colombia and northern Ecuador at elevations around 3100 to 3450 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with a slender, suberect ramicaul enveloped by 9 to 11, close fitting, ciliate lepanthiform sheaths with markedly dilated ostia carrying a single, apical, suberect, thinly coriaceous, reticulate, ovate, acuminate to acute, rounded and abruptly contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later summer through fall on a filiform, congested, disitchous, to .68" [1.7 cm] long including the .48" [1.2 cm] long peduncle, successively several flowered inflorescence arising on the back of the leaf.
"Similar to the frequent L contingens and the two concepts are very similar and might be merely two variations of the same species, but the lips are either notched or entire without intermediates being seen. L transparens si distinguished by
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Phytologia 54: 374 Luer 1983; 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; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXXII Luer 2012 drawing fide; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 3 Ortiz & Uribe 2019 drawing/photo fide;
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