Lepanthes refracta Luer 2001 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
TYPE drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Webpage
Similar plant and flower but not
Photos by © Jean Marc Palandre and his Flickr Orchid Photo Webpage
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Common Name The Bent Back Lepanthes [refers to the sepals]
Flower Size .08" [2 mm]
Found in Valle de Cauca and Narino departments of Colombia without collection data as a mini-miniature sized epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 4 to 12 , microscopically scabrous, acuminate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, reticulated, subcircular, obtuse, shoprtly acuminate, rounded and abruptly contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later spring and fall on a slender, distichous, very congested, .68" [1.7 cm] long including the .44” [1.1 mm] long peduncle, successively many flowered inflorescence.
CAUTION The photos above are not L refracta, [the type drawing is absolutely correct] but they are very similar, but L refracta has an erect ramicaul enveloped by 4 to 12 lepanthiform sheaths, subcircular, reticulate leaves with a linear acumen and a shorter, successively many flowered densely distichous inflorescence of very small flowers with proportionally large apically triangular petals pushed flat against the sepals and a lip that wraps around the column.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orquideologia Vol 22 #1 pg 48 Luer 2001 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXXII Luer 2012 drawing fide; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 3 Ortiz & Uribe 2019 drawing fide;
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