Lepanthes marthae Luer & R.Escobar, Orquideologia 18(1): 60 (-62), fig. (1991).
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| Lepanthes marthae Luer & R.Escobar, Photo by Carlos Augusto Mesa Londoño |
its native range is Colombia (Antioquia).
Latin Name:
Lepanthes marthae Luer & R.Escobar
Family:
Orchidaceae Juss.
Synonym:
No synonyms are recorded for this name.
English Name:
Martha's Lepanthes (Martha Robledo orchid nurserywoman current).
Description:
With erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 4 to 5 coarsely cilate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coricaeous, purple suffused, elliptical, acute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late spring and summer on a slender, loose, distichous, (4 to 4.5 cm) long, including the (1 to 1.5 cm) long peduncle, successively few flowered inflorescence exceeding the length of the leaf.
Distribution:
Colombia.
Ecological:
At elevations around 2200 m as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte.
Flowering times:
Blooms in the late spring and summer.
Flower size:
1.3 cm.
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:
R.Escobar,J.M.Munera 160
Type Herbaria:
holotype JAUM
isotype MO
Distribution Of Types:
Antioquia (Colombia, Western South America, Southern America)
Reference:
theplantlist.org
https://www.ipni.org/n/301966-2
http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:301966-2
http://www.orchidspecies.com/lepmarthae.htm
https://www.ecuagenera.com/Lepanthopsis-acetabulum/en
https://orchids.fandom.com
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