Lepanthes pelyx

Lepanthes pelyx Luer & Hirtz, Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 61: 136, fig (1996).

Lepanthes pelyx Luer & Hirtz, Photo by Masaaki Matsumoto

its native range is Ecuador (Imbabura).

Latinh Name: 

Lepanthes pelyx Luer & Hirtz

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

No synonyms are recorded for this name.

English Name:

The Basin Lepanthes (refers to the broadly concave body of the lip).

Description: 

With slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 13 to 15, ciliate, leapanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, suberect to almost horizontal, thinly coriaceous, purple suffused, lightly reticulate, ovate, acute, long-acuminate, round and contracted into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter and spring on a slender, 2.5 to 4 cm long, congested, successively several to many flowered inflorescence arising from behind the leaf.

Distribution:

Ecuador.

Ecological:

On the western slopes of the Andes in very wet montane forests at elevations around 1200 to 2100 m as a mini-miniature to miniature sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte.

Flowering times:

Blooms in the winter and spring.

Flower size:

5.0 mm.

Cultivation:

Climate: Cool

Air Circulation: Medium

Light: Medium

Humidity: High

Fertilizer: Monthly

Typus:

Collector Team:

C.A.Luer, J.P.Luer, D.Bermudes, A.C.Hirtz, D.H.Benzing, C.H.Dodson 12431

Type Herbaria:

holotype MO

Distribution Of Types:

Epiphytic in wet virgin forest southeast of Lita toward Santa Rosa de Cachaco, 1250 m, Imbabura (Ecuador, Western South America, Southern America)

Bogor cult. (Branderhorst 203) (syn BO, K); Römer, von 661(syn BO).

Luer, C. [12431], Ecuador K000584330 isotype

Luer, C. [12431], Ecuador K000584331 isotype

Reference: 

- theplantlist.org

- ipni.org/n/313405-2

- orchidspecies.com/leppelyx.htm.

- powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:313405-2

- orchidsnewguinea.com/orchid-information/species/speciescode/2258

- ecuagenera.com/Lepanthes-pelyx