Lepanthes calodictyon

"Lepanthes calodictyon Hook. is native to Ecuador and Colombia; its habitat is the pre-montane and montane woods, this species is located at an altitude of 700-1400 meters."

Lepanthes calodictyon Hook., Bot. Mag. 87: t. 5259 (1861).

Lepanthes calodictyon Hook., Photo from Deutsche Orchideen-Gesellschaft e.V. - Gruppe Teutoburger Wald 

its native range is W. Colombia to W. Ecuador.

Latin Name: 

Lepanthes calodictyon Hook.

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

Lepanthes calodictyon f. ivanoflava O.Gruss

Stelis calodyction Spruce

English Name:

The Beautiful Net-Patterned Leaf Lepanthes.

Description: 

It has clustered erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3, obconical, acute, ciliate, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a densely patterned, satiny, pendant, broadly ovate top, subcircular, obtuse or shortly apiculate leaf that is lime to emerald green and red in color with a congested, fasiculate, subsecund, shorter than the leaves, one to several flowered inflorescence that can occur at any time of the year with very small flowers that open singly in sucession and needs high humidity, constant watering and fertilizer.

Distribution:

Colombia, Ecuador.

Ecological:

In wet montane forests as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte at elevations of 450 to 1500 m.

Flowering times:

Blooms at any time of the year.

Flower size:

8.0  mm.

Cultivation:

Keep plant in partial shade. Plant can be grown in intermediate to warm conditions. Pot the plant in fine bark with perlite or sphagnum moss. Water regularly and keep potting media moist.

Typus:

Spruce, R. [s.n.], Ecuador K000201511 Unknown type material

Reference: 

- theplantlist.org

- https://www.ipni.org/n/639955-1

- http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:639955-1

- http://www.orchidspecies.com/lepcalodictyon.htm. 

- https://travaldo.blogspot.com/2018/05/lepanthes-calodictyon-care-and-culture.html

- https://orchids.fandom.com/wiki/Lepanthes_calodictyon