Lepanthes reburrus Luer & Thoerle 2011 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Breves Luer 1986 SERIES Breves Luer 1996

TYPE drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Webpage

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Common Name The Bristling Hair Lepanthes [refers to the coarse pubescence on the ramicaul]

Flower Size .24" [6 mm]

Found in Norte de Santander department of Colombia in cloud forests at elevations around 2600 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 7 to 8, coarsly pubescent lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, purple suffused, elliptical-ovate, acute, acuminate, rounded and contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later spring on a slender, congested, distichous, 1.68" [4.2 cm] long including the .8” [2 cm] long peduncle, successively several flowered inflorescence arising on the back of the leaf.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orquideologia 22: 45 Luer 2001 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXXII Luer 2012 drawing fide; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 3 Ortiz & Uribe 2019 photo fide;

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