Lepanthes furcata

Lepanthes furcata

Found in Choco and Valle de Cauca Colombia at elevations around 2000 meters as a miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with slender, weak, erect ramicauls enveloped by 16 to 18 lepanthiform sheaths with minutely ciliate ostia and carrying a single, apical, more or less decurved, from a bending of the paex of the ramicaul, purple suffused, thinly coriaceous, elliptical, acute, long-acuminate, broadly cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on a slender, congested, distichous, .6 to 1.2" [1.5 to 3 cm] long including the .4 to 1" [1 to 2.5 cm] long peduncle, successively single, few flowered inflorescence arising on top of the leaf and has acute floral bracts.
Taxonomy
KingdomPlantae
DivisionAngiosperms
ClassMonocots
OrderAsparagales
FamilyOrchidaceae
GenusLepanthes
SpeciesLepanthes furcata
Photographed in
Colombia