Lepanthes gargoyla

Lepanthes gargoyla Luer & Hirtz, Orchidee (Hamburg) 39(2): 59 (1988).

Lepanthes gargoyla Luer & Hirtz, Photo by Kristine Marie

its native range is SE. Ecuador.

Latin Name: 

Lepanthes gargoyla Luer & Hirtz

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

No synonyms are recorded for this name.

English Name:

The Gargoyle Lepanthes (named for it's likeness to a gargoyle).

Description: 

With slender, erect, ramicauls enveloped basally by 7 to 11 thin, glabrous, lang-acuminate, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, suberect to spreading, coriaceous, purple suffused, ovate, recurved margins, acute leaf with the cuneate base contracted into the petiole that blooms in the spring on a congested, secund, successively several flowered, to  4.5 cm long, racemose inflorescence with oblique floral bracts.

Distribution:

Ecuador.

Ecological:

In cloud forests as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte at elevations around 900 to 1300 m.

Flowering times:

Blooms in the spring.

Flower size:

6.0 mm.

Cultivation:

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

Typus:

Type Information:

Distribution Of Types Ecuador.

Reference: 

- theplantlist.org

- https://www.ipni.org/n/934599-1

- http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:934599-1

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

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