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Lepanthes carunculigera Another beautiful Lepanthes on Cerro Montezuma.  This one purple nd found above 2,000 metres Caruncle Bearing Lepanthes,Cerro Montezuma,Lepanthes carunculigera,Tatama National Park Click/tap to enlarge

Lepanthes carunculigera

Another beautiful Lepanthes on Cerro Montezuma. This one purple nd found above 2,000 metres

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Found in Risaralda and Choco departments of Colombia at elevations around 2100 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with slender, suberect to horizontal ramicauls enveloped by 6 to 8, minutely ciliate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, spreading to horizontal, coriaceous, purple suffused beneath, satiny green above, elliptical-ovate, subacute, broadly cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring and summer on a filiform, congested, .6 to.. more

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Species identified by NattyOne
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Uploaded Dec 10, 2019. Captured Aug 7, 2019 22:05.
  • Canon EOS 7D Mark II
  • f/4.0
  • 1/41s
  • ISO5000
  • 60mm