Found in Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador at elevations of 1400 to 3400 meters as a miniature to medium sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with slender to stout, erect, ramicauls enveloped basally by 10 to 18, pale tan, glabrous, lepanthiform sheaths with non-dilated ostia and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly ovate-elliptical, acute, leaf that is cuneate below into a petiole that blooms in the winter, spring and summer on an erect, subcongested, distichous, 1.6 to 2.6" [4.. more
Similar species: Agaves, Aloes, Onions
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Uploaded Mar 9, 2019. Captured Oct 26, 2018 08:20.
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Easiest way seems to be to search for freshly fallen branches. Many lepanthes grow in the canopy, which are usually inaccessible. A young fallen branch may have some of them still in a good state.
Some do grow lower, like this one. Here guides inspect the lower part of mossy trees. They look for the leaf of the orchid, which you can see from the zoomed out shot. It's typical: single or dual leaf, and lengthy.
That said, with these tips in mind it's still very hard. In the rare cases that I reported one the response was: nope, not an orchid :) Posted 6 years ago