Lepanthes celox Luer & Hirtz 1987 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes

Photo by Bruno Larsen and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website

TYPE Drawing Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Yacht Like Lepanthes [refers to the appendix shape]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in northwestern Ecuador at elevations around 800 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with a slender, erect ramicaul enveloped by 5 to 6, minutely ciliate, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, purplish beneath, coriaceous, broadly oblong, obtuse, rounded and contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter and spring on a filiform, very congested, distichous, .6" [1.5 cm] long, successively several flowered inflorescence arising on the back of the leaf.

"Characterized by the short, distichous, raceme with a pinkish flower with long-pointed lobes of the petals. Most distinguishing is the long boat-shaped appendix with a solid prow that reaches to just beneath the viscidium." Luer 1996

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Lindleyana 2: 36 Luer & Hirtz 1987 Drawing fide; 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; Orquideas de Farallones de Cali Galindo-Tarazona, Haelterman, Zuluaga Trochez and Sebastian Moreno 2020 photo fide

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