Lepanthes katleri

Lepanthes katleri Luer, Lindleyana 6: 73, fig (1991).

Lepanthes katleri Luer, Photo by Carlos Augusto Mesa Londoño

its native range is Peru.

Latin Name: 

Lepanthes katleri Luer

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

No synonyms are recorded for this name.

English Name:

Katler's Lepanthes (Named in honor of Dr. Ernest I. Katler of Kensington, California, who discovered this species).

Description: 

With slender, erect ramicauls enveloped basally by several lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, elliptic, subacute to obtuse, coriaceous, basally clasping leaf that blooms in the spring on a pedunculate, 5 cm long, fractiflex, loosely several flowered inflorescence with the flower produced one by one in succession over time.

Distribution:

Peru.

Ecological:

In the lower levels of the cloud forests at elevations of 1800 to 2000 m as a miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte.

Flowering times:

Blooms in the summer.

Flower size:

5.0 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:

Collector Team:

C.A.Luer 14403

Type Herbaria:

holotype MO

Distribution Of Types:

Amazonas (Brazil, Southern America)

Reference: 

- theplantlist.org

- https://www.ipni.org/n/279468-2

- http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:279468-2

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

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