Lepanthes trinaria Luer & R.Escobar 1997 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
Photos by © Esteban Dominguez Vargas and his Flickr Orchid Photo Webpage
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Epidendra Website
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Common Name The Three Part Lepanthes [refers to the petals shape]
Flower Size .12" [3 mm]
Found in Antioquia department of Colombia in cloud forests at elevations around 2700 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped completely by 8 to 10, minutely ciliate, lepanthiform sheaths with oblique apices and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, cordate-ovate, subacute, broadly cuneate to subcordate, contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late fall and early winter on a filiform, sublax, .48 to .64" [1.2 to 1.6 cm] long including the .4 to .56 ” [1 to 1.4 cm] long peduncle, successively single, 2 to 3 flowered inflorescence arising on the top of the leaf.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Orquideologia Vol 20 #3 pg 311 Luer & Escobar 1997 drawing/photo 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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