Lockhartia lepticaula D.E.Benn. & Christenson 2001
Photos by © Karl Senghas and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Slender Stemmed Lockhartia
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Huanuco department of Peru in wet montane forests at elevations of 780 to 950 meters as a medium to large sized, warm growing epiphyte with elongate, laterally compressed stems enveloped completely by imbricating, equitant, triangular, acute leaves that blooms in the spring on 3 to 4, axillary, below the stem apex, racemose to paniculate, short to .8" [2 cm], 2 to 4 flowered inflorescnece with amplexicaul, infundibulbiform, acute floral bracts
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; *Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 678 Bennett & Christenson 2001 drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 44-45 pg 2763 - 2898 Brieger 2001; LANKESTERIANA 14(1) 2014;
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