Lepanthes zamorensis Luer & Hirtz 1996 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
Photo by Walter Teague
Photo by © Alexander Hirtz
Another Flower Photo by Eric Hunt ©.
Photo by © Lourens Grobler
TYPE by © Carl Luer
Common Name The Rio Zamora Lepanthes [Ecuador River]
Flower Size 1/32" [5 mm]
Found in Ecuador at elevations of 1400 to 2000 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with slender, erect, ramicauls enveloped basally by 5 to 12 ciliate, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, suffused with purple beneath, ovate, acute, lightly acuminate leaf with the rounded base contracted into a petiole that blooms in the winter and spring on a congested, distichous, successively several flowered, 3/4" [2.2 cm] long, racemose inflorescence arising behind the leaf
Similar to L chorista but differs in the acute, acuminate, denticulate sepals and the larger petals that are not oblique to the lip.
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 SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes 1993
Checked W3Tropicos Type Drawing OK
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