Lepanthes ricaurtensis - 2, Rio Ñambi, Colombia

Second specimen of this species found in Rio Ñambi, Colombia.

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jay Pfahl

Bullet Ant

Hi Ferdy
I would really like to add this photo to www.orchidspecies.com. This is the only photo of this species that I am aaware. Write me at jfal@sprynet.com
Thnaks
Posted 5 years ago
1. Ferdy Christant
  
  Lion
  
  You have my permission to use it, if you mention credits. This photo is of a better quality:
  
  Posted 5 years ago, modified 5 years ago

The Lepanthes ricaurtensis

Found in Narino Colombia at elevations around 1600 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with slender, suberect ramicauls enveloped by 5 to 9, microscopically ciliate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, suberect, coriaceous, narrowly ovate, acute, acuminate, conspicuously tridentate, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a congested, distichous, .8" [2 cm] long including the .6” [1.5 cm] long peduncle, successively several flowered.. more

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Similar species: Agaves, Aloes, Onions

Species identified by Ferdy Christant