Horned Lepanthes - full plant, La Cocha, Colombia

nd in southern Colombia to northern Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations of 3000 to 3200 meters as a small sized, cold growing epiphyte with erect, slender to stout ramicauls enveloped by 8 to 16, glabrous to microscopically scabrous, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, erect, narrowly elliptical, purple suffused beneath, acute, the base cuneate into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on 1 to 3, 3.2" [to 8 cm] long, successively single, several flowered.. more