Six Footed Lepanthes

Lepanthes hexapus

Found in Colombia and Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations of 850 to 2100 meters as a mini-miniature, warm to cool growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 5 to 6 ciliate, lepanthiform sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, purple veined, ovate, acute leaf with the base cuneate into the petiole that blooms in the winter and spring on a congested, successively several flowered, 2/5" [1 cm] long, racemose inflorescence.
Lepanthes hexapus The six footed Lepanthes found above 2,000 metres on Cerro Montezuma; a very distinctive Lepanthes  Cerro Montezuma,Lepanthes hexapus,Six Footed Lepanthes,Tatama National Park

Distribution

Colombia and Ecuador.

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Taxonomy
KingdomPlantae
DivisionAngiosperms
ClassMonocots
OrderAsparagales
FamilyOrchidaceae
GenusLepanthes
SpeciesLepanthes hexapus
Photographed in
Colombia