Lepanthes chocoensis Luer & Thoerle 2011 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
Photo by © Sebastian Viera
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Webpage
Common Name The Choco' Lepanthes [refers to the department of Colombia where the species occurs]
Flower Size .36" [9 mm]
Found in the Choco' department of Colombia at elevations around 1920 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with erect, very slender ramicauls enveloped by 6 to 7, glabrous, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, thinly coriaceous, purple suffused, erect, ovate, acute, acuminate to mucronate, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on a slender, congested, .52" [1.3 cm] long including the .32" [8 mm] long peduncle, successively few flowered inflorescence arising on the top of the leaf.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXXII Luer 2012 drawing fide; Orchids A Colombian Treasure Vol 3 Ortiz & Uribe 2019 photo fide;
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