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Lepanthes prionota is an orchid species identified by Luer & Hirtz in 1987. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Draconanthes aberrans.
ORIGIN: Found in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia at elevations around 3000 to 3700 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature sized, cold growing terrestrial with slender, erect, sometimes prolific ramicauls enveloped by 4 to 7, ciliate, lepanthiform sheaths and carry7ing a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptic, acute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring through fall on an erect becoming abruptly pendulous, slightly flexuous, congested, distichous, 4 to 9.2 [10 to 23 cm] long, successively few to many flowered inflorescence with up to 3 flowers open at any one time with shortly spiculate, infundibular floral bracts.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.2 inches [5 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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