Lepanthes lacera Luer & Thoerle 2011 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes

TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Epidendra Webpage

LATE EARLY

Common Name The Lacerate Lepanthes [refers to the dentate margined column apex]

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Antioquia department of Colombia at elevations around 1380 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte with stout, erect ramicauls enveloped by around 8, minutely cilate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, purple suffused, ovate, acute , acuminate, rounded and contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late winter and early spring on a congested, 1.84" [4.6 cm] long including the 1.6" [4 cm] long peduncle, successively single, many flowered inflorescence arising on the back of the leaf.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Harvard Pap. Bot. 16(2): 334-335. 2011 Drawing fide; Orquideología 22(1): 38-42 Luer 2001 Drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXXII Luer 2012 drawing fide;

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