Lepanthes cordata Luer & R.Escobar, Orquideologia 17: 165, figs (1987).
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| Lepanthes cordata Luer & R.Escobar, Photo by Carlos Augusto Mesa Londoño |
its native range is Colombia.
Latin Name:
Lepanthes cordata Luer & R.Escobar
Family:
Orchidaceae Juss.
Synonym:
No synonyms are recorded for this name.
English Name:
The Cordate Lepanthes (refers to the leaves).
Description:
With slender, erect, ramicauls enveloped by 4 to 5, shortly ciliate, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, purple beneath, broadly cordate, obtuse, shortly acuminate, cordate to subcordate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later spring on a filiform, congested, .24 to 6 to .9 cm long, including the 5 to 1 cm long peduncle, successively single, few flowered inflorescence.
Distribution:
Colombia.
Ecological:
In cloud forests at elevations around 2050 m as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte.
Flowering times:
Blooms in the later spring.
Flower size:
2.0 mm.
Cultivation:
Keep plant in partial shade. Plant can be grown in cool to intermediate 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, R.Escobar, E.Valencia 11371
Type Herbaria:
holotype MO
Distribution Of Types:
Colombia (Western South America, Southern America)
Reference:
theplantlist.org
https://www.ipni.org/n/279427-2
http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:279427-2
http://www.orchidspecies.com/lepcordata.htm
https://orchids.fandom.com/wiki/Pleurothallis_cordata
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