Lepanthes ximenae Luer 1983 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
Photo by © Alexander Hirtz
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name Ximena's Lepanthes [Mrs Hirtz Ecuadorian Orchid Enthusiast current]
Flower Size .12" [3 mm]
Found in eastern Ecuador at elevations around 400 to 1400 meters as a small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with an erect, slender to stout ramicaul enveloped by 8 to 12, ciliate lepanthiform sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical , acute to lightly acuminate,cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms at most any time of the year on a filiform, congested, disitchous, .4 to 1.6" [1 to 4 cm] long, successively flowered inflorescence arising on the back of the leaf.
"This colorful species is distinguished by a combination of characters. It has a narrowly elliptical leaf borne by a relatively stout ramicaul, a congested distichous raceme, shorter than the leaf, broad obtuse sepals, large oblong-rouned upper lobes of the petals, ovate blades of the lip and a small pubescent appendix." Luer 1996
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Phytologia 54: 377 Luer 1983; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XIV Systematics of Draconanthes, Lepanthes subgenus Marsipanthes and subgenus Lepanthes of Ecuador Luer 1996 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 photo fide; Flora of Ecuador No 88 Lepanthes and affiliates Dodson & Luer 2011 drawing fide
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