Lepanthes diabolica

 Lepanthes diabolica Luer & R.Escobar, Orquideologia 18(1): 42 (-44), fig. (1991).

 Lepanthes diabolica Luer & R.Escobar, Photo by David OneWheel

 its native range is Colombia (Santander).

Latinh Name: 

Lepanthes diabolica Luer & R.Escobar 

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

No synonyms are recorded for this name.

English Name:

The Devilish Lepanthes (refers to the red, minutely pubescent flowers with pointed sepals and petals).

Description: 

With very slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 7 to 13,microscopically ciliate-scabrous lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, elliptical, acute with narrowly attenuate apices, broadly cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later spring on a filiform, congested, distichous, 5 to 6 cm long, including the 3 to 4 cm long peduncle, successively single, many flowered inflorescence arising on the dorsum of the leaf.

Distribution:

Colombia.

Ecological:

In cloud forests at elevations around 2700 m as a miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte.

Flowering times:

Blooms in the spring.

Flower size:

5.0 mm.

Cultivation:

Keep plants in a moist mix of fine bark or sphagnum moss. Do not let mix dry. Plants should watered regularly. Plants require cool to warm temperatures, depending on the species and shade.

Typus:

Collector Team:

C.A.Luer et al. 10158

Type Herbaria:

holotype MO

Distribution Of Types:

Santander (Colombia, Western South America, Southern America)

Reference: 

- theplantlist.org

- orchidspecies.com/lepdiabolica.htm. 

- ipni.org/n/305886-2

- powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:305886-2

- ecuagenera.com/Masdevallia-persicina/en

- orchids.fandom.com