Lepanthes heteroloba Luer, R.Escobar & Thoerle 2011 SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Mucronatae Luer 1996
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LATER 
Common Name The Different Lobed Lepanthes [refers to the petals]
Flower Size .12" [3 mm]
Found in Antioquia department of Colombia at elevations around 2400 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with slender, erect, more or less arching ramicauls enveloped by 7 to 8, close, microscopically ciliate lepanthiform sheaths with acuminate tips and carrying a single, apical, horizontal to pendent, coriaceous, ovate, acute, acuminate apically, rounded below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later spring on a filiform, very congested, .44 to .68" [1.1 to 1.7 cm] long including the .08 to .32" [2 to 8 mm] long peduncle, successively single, many flowered inflorescence arising on top of the leaf.
Similar to L quandi both of which have denticulate margins on the sepals and glabrous petals but L quandi differs in the cuneate connectives that are inserted below the middle of the blade, and L praemorsa which has smooth margined sepals and pubescent petals.
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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 drawing/photo fide;
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