Lepanthes biloba - closeup, La Cocha, Colombia

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