Lepanthes cincinnata Luer & R.Escobar, Orquideologia 19: 23 (-24), fig (1993).
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| Lepanthes cincinnata Luer & R.Escobar, Photo by Carlos Augusto Mesa Londoño |
its native range is Colombia (Valle del Cauca, Risaralda).
Latin Name:
Lepanthes cincinnata Luer & R.Escobar
Family:
Orchidaceae Juss.
Synonym:
No synonyms are recorded for this name.
English Name:
The Curled Lepanthes (refers to the curled lower sepaline tails).
Description:
With erect ramicauls enveloped by 5 to 11, lepanthiform sheaths with dilated, ciliate ostia and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, purple suffused, ovate, acute, acuminate to mucronate apically, cuneate below into the base leaf that blooms in the winter on a slender, congested, secund, 3 to 3.2 cm long including the 1 to 1.2 cm long peduncle, successively single, many flowered inflorescence arising on top of the leaf.
Distribution:
Colombia.
Ecological:
In cloud forests at elevations around 2200 m as a miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte.
Flowering times:
Blooms in the winter.
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:
R.Escobar 5081
Type Herbaria:
holotype JAUM
isotype MO
Distribution Of Types:
Cauca (Colombia, Western South America, Southern America)
Reference:
theplantlist.org
https://www.ipni.org/n/306887-2
http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:306887-2
http://www.orchidspecies.com/lepcincinatta.htm.
https://roehamptonorchids.ca/products/pteroceras-longicalcareum
https://orchids.fandom.com/wiki/Lepanthes
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