Little Snout Lepanthes

Lepanthes rhynchion

Lepanthes rhynchion is a small orchid species found in Colombia and Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations of 1800 to 3300 meters as a small to medium sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte.
Lepanthes rhynchion (Orchidaceae) Finca Estrella de Agua, PN Los Nevados, Quindio, Colombia. Jun 11, 2014
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Appearance

Erect, stout ramicauls enveloped by 7 to 15, microscopically ciliate, lepanthiform sheaths with oblique dilated ostia and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, more or less purple suffused beneath, elliptical-ovate, acuminate, acute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in late winter and spring on a filiform, 2.4" [6 cm] long including the 1.2" [3 cm] long pedumcle, subdense, distichous, successively flowered, racemose inflorescence in a fascile of up to 10, on the back of the leaf, single to occasionally 2 simultaneously opening flowers.

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