Lepanthes hirpex

 Lepanthes hirpex Luer & R.Escobar, Amer. Orchid Soc. Bull. 54: 584 (-585), fig (1985).

Lepanthes hirpex Luer & R.Escobar, Photo by Carlos Augusto Mesa Londoño

its native range is Colombia to N. Ecuador.

Latin Name: 

Lepanthes hirpex Luer & R.Escobar

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

No synonyms are recorded for this name.

English Name:

The Rake Lepanthes (refers to the appearance of the long-pedicellate rachis).

Description: 

With erect to suberect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 5 to 6, close, microscopically ciliate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, thickly coriaceous, erect, ovate, subacute, rounded and abruptly contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a filiform, congested, distichous, 3 cm long, successively flowered inflorescence arising on the back the leaf.

Distribution:

Colombia, Ecuador.

Ecological:

On ridges in low mossy forests at elevations around 2000 to 2400 m as a medium sized, cold growing epiphyte.

Flowering times:

Blooms in the spring.

Flower size:

3.0 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:

R.Escobar 3264

Type Herbaria:

holotype JAUM

Distribution Of Types:

Colombia (Western South America, Southern America).

Reference: 

- theplantlist.org

- https://www.ipni.org/n/279454-2

- http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:279454-2

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

- https://orchids.fandom.com