Lepanthes reticulata Luer & R.Escobar 1984 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
Photos by © Sebastian Vieira and his Colombian Pleurothallid Photo Flickr site
Common Name The Reticulate Lepanthes [refers to the reticulate leaf]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Antioquia department of Colombia at elevations around 1730 to 2100 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphtye with suberect, very slender stems enveloped completely by 6 to 9, close, glabrous except for the microscopically ciliate ostia, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, suberect, thinly coriaceous, intensely reticulate with purple on green, narrowly ovate, acute, acuminate, tridenticulate, cuneate below into the base leaf that blooms in the fall and winter on a congested, distichous, .8" [2 cm] long including the .32" [8 mm] long peduncle, successively several flowered inflorescence arising on top of the leaf
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *AOS Bulletin Vol 53 No 6 1984 drawing /photo fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXXII Luer 2012 drawing fide; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 3 Ortiz & Uribe 2019 drawing/photo fide;
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