Common and widespread (Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia)
Montane forest. Found at elevations of 1700m
A small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with slender erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 7 to 12 close fitting, lepanthiform sheaths carrying a single, apical, more or less horizontal, often purple beneath, thinly coriaceous, ovate to narrowly ovate, acute, acuminate leaf with the base broadly to narrowly cuneate into a petiole that is free flowering throughout the year on a congested, successively many flowered, 1 1/5" long, racemose inflorescence.
Contu, S. 2013. Lepanthes mucronata. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
http://www.orchidspecies.com/lepmucronata.htm
Family | Orchidaceae |
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Color | green, pink |