Lepanthes medusa Luer & R.Escobar, Orquideologia 18(1): 64 (-68), fig. (1991).
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| Lepanthes medusa Luer & R.Escobar, Photo by Carlos Augusto Mesa Londoño |
its native range is Colombia (Antioquia).
Latin Name:
Lepanthes medusa Luer & R.Escobar
Family:
Orchidaceae Juss.
Synonym:
No synonyms are recorded for this name.
English Name:
The Medusa Lepanthes (Greek Myth Monster - Snake-Headed).
Description:
With erect, stout ramicauls enveloped by 11 to 12, minutely ciliate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, ovate, acute, shortly acuminate, rugose between the veins on the underside, rounded and contractes into the twisted, petiolate base base leaf that blooms in the spring on a few, terminal, 4 cm long, successively single, several flowered inflorescence arsing on the back side of the leaf.
Distribution:
Colombia.
Ecological:
At elevations of 2000 to 2400 m as a medium sized, cold growing epiphyte.
Flowering times:
Blooms in the spring.
Flower size:
2.0 cm.
Cultivation:
Keep plant in warm temperatures. Keep moist in summer seasons and do not allow mix to dry, in winter keep the mix slight dry and reduce watering. Keep good air movement to avoid fungal growth. Keep plants in shade. Pot plants in sphagnum moss, fine bark, or mounted.
Typus:
Collector Team:
C.A.Luer 14098
Type Herbaria:
holotype MO
isotype JAUM
Distribution Of Types:
Colombia (Western South America, Southern America)
Reference:
theplantlist.org
https://www.ipni.org/n/305634-2
http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:305634-2
http://www.orchidspecies.com/lepmedusa.htm
https://orchids.fandom.com/wiki/Bulbophyllum_medusae
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