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Orchid Species: Lepanthes porracea
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Lepanthes porracea is an orchid species identified by Luer & R.Escobar in 1997.
ORIGIN: Found in Choco and Risaralda Colombia at elevations around 2150 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small sized, cold growing epiphyte with stout, thick, erect ramicauls enveloped by 12 to 15, coarsely ciliate lepanthiform sheaths with oblique ostia and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical-ovate, acute, acuminate, cuneate and contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late spring on a filiform, lax below congested above, distichous to subsecund, .8 to 1.2 [2 to 3 cm] long including the peduncle, successively several flowered inflorescence arising on the back of the leaf.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.16 inches [4 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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