Lepanthes sp

As yet unidentified Lepanthes from about 2,500 metres on Cerro Montezuma

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Christine Young

Lion

I saw that there is a request to create an ID for this photo....do you have the species level ID, or was the request just an error? Posted 5 years ago
1. NattyOne
  
  Lion
  
  Hi Christine, An error, sorry - I can only get to Lepanthes, it's very like ollaris but it isn't that - David Posted 5 years ago
2. 1. Christine Young
    
    Lion
    
    Oh, okay - no problem..I just wanted to make sure :) Posted 5 years ago
  2. 1. NattyOne
      
      Lion
      
      Got it now Christine Posted 5 years ago

The Lepanthes janitor

Found in Antioquia and Choco departments of Colombia in cloud forests at elevations around 1700 to 2700 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with slender, erect, ramicauls enveloped by 11 to 13, microscopically ciliate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thinly coricaeous, ovate, acute, acuminate, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on a filiform, congested, .68 to 1.4" [1.7 to 3.5 cm] long including the .28 to 1".. more

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Similar species: Agaves, Aloes, Onions

Species identified by NattyOne