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Lepanthes silverstonei Cerro Montezuma Very striking Lepanthes found above 2,200 metres on Cerro Montezuma Cerro Montezuma,Lepanthes silverstonei,Tatama National Park Click/tap to enlarge

Lepanthes silverstonei Cerro Montezuma

Very striking Lepanthes found above 2,200 metres on Cerro Montezuma

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Found in Valle de Cauca Colombia at elevations around 2300 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with slender, suberect to horizontal ramicauls enveloped by 6 to 15, minutely ciliate lepanthiform sheaths with acuminate ostia and carrying a single, apical, more or less horizontal, more or less purple suffused, thinly coriaceous, shallowly sulcate betwen longitudinal veins, ovate, acute, long-acuminate, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on a filiform,.. more

Similar species: Agaves, Aloes, Onions
Species identified by Ferdy Christant
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Uploaded Dec 10, 2019. Captured Aug 7, 2019 22:00.
  • Canon EOS 7D Mark II
  • f/4.0
  • 1/197s
  • ISO2000
  • 60mm