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Lepanthes acutissima
Another of the miniature orchids that we first saw whilst staying with Michelle Tatiana Tapasco at the Montezuma Rainforest Ecolodge. A wonderful place. Finally managed to get confirmation of the identity of this miniature orchid. Thanks to Sebastian Moreno for identifying this.
Found in Risaralda and Antioquia departments of Colombia in cloud forests at elevations around 2400 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped by 12 to 14, close fitting, microscopically ciliate-scabrous, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, ovate, acuminate, rounded below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later spring on a filiform, to 2.8" [to 7 cm] long including the 1 to 1.4" [2.5 to 3.5 cm] long peduncle,.. more
