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Lepanthes carunculigera, Tatama National Park, Colombia
This is the first Lepanthes orchid our guide pointed out in the cloud forest of Colombia, and a turning point for us to get excited about orchids. The Lepanthes genus, nicknamed Babyboot orchids, in particular is spectacular. It consist of a range of miniature orchids that are not only gorgeous, also quite rare and collectable as they grow in very specific conditions in cloud forests only.
Found in Risaralda and Choco departments of Colombia at elevations around 2100 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with slender, suberect to horizontal ramicauls enveloped by 6 to 8, minutely ciliate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, spreading to horizontal, coriaceous, purple suffused beneath, satiny green above, elliptical-ovate, subacute, broadly cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring and summer on a filiform, congested, .6 to.. more
