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Two Lobed Lepanthes, La Cocha, Colombia Flower size: 5mm.<br />
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  1. The top leaf/petal has two little hairs. I wonder why. Posted 6 years ago
    1. I don't think it's part of it, just debris. They tend to grow in very messy, mossy places. Posted 6 years ago
      1. Oh well. I had fun imagining the possible reasons for it to have two random hairs... Posted 6 years ago
        1. It was a nice try :) I love how you keep discovering little details I wasn't even aware of. You'd be great in finding lepanthes! Posted 6 years ago
          1. Lol, thanks! I love the details :) Posted 6 years ago
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Found in Colombia and western Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations around 2100 to 3600 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with slender to stout, erect ramicauls enveloped by 5 to 17, minutely ciliate-scabrous lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, elliptical-oblong to elliptical ovate, acute to obtuse, shortly or slightly acuminate, cuneate below and contracted into the petiolate base leaf that blooms at any time of the year on a slender,.. more

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Species identified by Ferdy Christant
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By Ferdy Christant

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Uploaded Mar 9, 2019. Captured Oct 26, 2018 13:33.
  • NIKON D850
  • f/16.0
  • 1/60s
  • ISO64
  • 105mm