Lepanthes niesseniae

Lepanthes niesseniae Luer, Revista Soc. Boliv. Bot. 4(1): 7 (2003) (2003).

Lepanthes niesseniae Luer, Photo by Deutsche Orchideen-Gesellschaft e.V. - Gruppe Teutoburger Wald

its native range is Colombia (Valle del Cauca). 

Latin Name: 

Lepanthes niesseniae Luer

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

No synonyms are recorded for this name.

English Name:

Niessen's Lepanthes (Colombian Orchid Nursery Owners Current).

Description: 

With erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 12 to 15 microscpically ciliate, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, purple suffused, thinly coriaceous, elliptiacl-ovate, acute, slightly acuminate, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later summer on a slender, very congested, secund, 2.5 to 2.8 cm] long including the .68 to .8" long peduncle, successively single, many flowered inflorescence.

Distribution:

Colombia.

Ecological:

As a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte.

Flowering times:

Blooms  in the later summer.

Flower size:

1.0 mm.

Cultivation:

Climate: Intermediate

Air Circulation: High

Light: Medium

Humidity: High

Fertilizer: Weekly

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.

Type Information:

Collector Team:

A.Niessen; J.C.Uribe 088

Locality:

Valle del Cauca

Type Herbaria:

holotype MO

Distribution Of Types:

Colombia (Western South America, Southern America)

Type Remarks:

cultivated at Orquídeas del Valle

Reference: 

theplantlist.org

https://www.ipni.org/n/70029314-1

http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:70029314-1

 http://www.orchidspecies.com/lepnissenii.htm. 

https://www.ecuagenera.com/Lepanthes-niesseniae/en

https://orchids.fandom.com/wiki/Lepanthes_niesseniae