Horned Lepanthes
Lepanthes cornualis
nd in southern Colombia to northern Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations of 3000 to 3200 meters as a small sized, cold growing epiphyte with erect, slender to stout ramicauls enveloped by 8 to 16, glabrous to microscopically scabrous, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, erect, narrowly elliptical, purple suffused beneath, acute, the base cuneate into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on 1 to 3, 3.2" [to 8 cm] long, successively single, several flowered inflorescence.
Distinguished by its narrowly elliptic leaves that are considerably shorter than the ramicauls, the loose racemes that are shorter than the leaf, the fringed ovaries, the broad, minutely denticulate sepals, the lateral sepals single veined, and the narrow blades of the lip with attenuate, more or less recurved bases that resemble horns.
Distinguished by its narrowly elliptic leaves that are considerably shorter than the ramicauls, the loose racemes that are shorter than the leaf, the fringed ovaries, the broad, minutely denticulate sepals, the lateral sepals single veined, and the narrow blades of the lip with attenuate, more or less recurved bases that resemble horns.
