Lepanthes zanklopetala Luer & Hirtz 2009 SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Mucronatae 1996

TYPE drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaira Website

Common Name The Sickle Shaped Petal Lepanthes

Flower Size .16" [4 mm]

Found in Pichincha province of Ecuador in lowland forests at elevations around 400 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with very slender, erect ramicauls enveloped completely by 8 to 12, close, microscopically pubescent lepanthiform sheaths with oblique, acuminate ostia and carrying a single, apical, erect, thin, softly coriaceous, ovate, acute, acuminate, rounded and contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms on a, filiform, very congested, .6” [1.5 cm] long including the .48” [1.2 cm] peduncle, successively single, several flowered inflorescence arising on the top of the leaf.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXX Luer 2009 drawing fide;

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