Lepanthopsis acetabulum

 Lepanthopsis acetabulum Luer, Phytologia 55: 196 (-197) (1984).

Lepanthopsis acetabulum
Lepanthopsis acetabulum
Lepanthopsis acetabulum
 Lepanthopsis acetabulum Luer, Photo by Masaaki Matsumoto

its native range is W. South America.

Latin Name: 

Lepanthopsis acetabulum Luer, 

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

No synonyms are recorded for this name.

English Name:

The Cup-Shaped Lepanthopsis (refers to the cavity of the lip).

Description: 

With a long ramicaul enclosed by lepanthiform sheaths and a carrying a single, apical, elliptic-lanceolate, acute, gradually narrows below into the conduplicate, petiolate leaf that blooms on a terminal, from the leaf base, congested, up to 3/5" [up to 18mm] long, simultaneously opening, many flowered raceme arising from the base of the leaf and holding the flowers below leaf height that blooms in the fall and winter.

Distribution:

Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru.

Ecological:

As a small sized, warm to cool growing, caespitose epiphyte, at elevations of 1400 to 1800 m.

Flowering times:

Blooms in the fall and winter.

Flower size:

3.0 mm.

Cultivation:

Climate: Intermediate Cool

Air Circulation: Medium

Light: Low

Humidity: Medium

Typus:

Collector Team:

S.Dalström 417

Type Herbaria:

holotype SEL

Distribution Of Types:

Ecuador (Western South America, Southern America)

Reference: 

theplantlist.org

https://www.ipni.org/n/137820-2

http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:137820-2

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

https://www.ecuagenera.com/Lepanthopsis-acetabulum/en

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