Lepanthes zongoensis Luer 1983 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Breves Luer 1986 SERIES Breves Luer 1996

TYPE drawing by © Carl Luer and The Epidendra Website

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Common Name The Rio Zongo Lepanthes [Location of species]

Flower Size .16" [4 mm]

Found in La Paz department of Bolivia in montane forests at elevations of 2200 to 2600 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped completely by 5 to 7, long-ciliate lepanthiform sheaths with markedly dilated ostia and carrying a single, apical, erect, purple suffused beneath, coriaceous, elliptical, obtuse, broadly cuneate and abruptly contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late spring and summer on a slender, subdense, subflexuous, .6” [1.5 cm] long including the .2” [5 mm] peduncle, successively single, several flowered inflorescence arising on the back of the leaf with ciliate floral bracts.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Phytologia 54: 378 Luer 1983; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXXI Lepanthes of Bolivia; Systematics of Octomeria Luer 2010 drawing fide;

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