Lepanthes acutissima

Lepanthes acutissima

Found in Risaralda and Antioquia departments of Colombia in cloud forests at elevations around 2400 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped by 12 to 14, close fitting, microscopically ciliate-scabrous, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, ovate, acuminate, rounded below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later spring on a filiform, to 2.8" [to 7 cm] long including the 1 to 1.4" [2.5 to 3.5 cm] long peduncle, successively single, many flowered inflorescence with acuminate floral bracts and arising from behind the leaf.
Taxonomy
KingdomPlantae
DivisionAngiosperms
ClassMonocots
OrderAsparagales
FamilyOrchidaceae
GenusLepanthes
SpeciesLepanthes acutissima
Photographed in
Colombia