Lepanthes dactylopetala EC-115998

£55.00

Found in the Esmeraldas province of Ecuador Kew gardens list the species as originating in the wet tropical biome, however it prefers cool to intermediate conditions in the green house. Slender green leaves with flowers with yellow sepals, dark red with an oranger border petals and a darker orange lip. Rare in cultivation.

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Found in Esmeraldas province of Ecuador at elevations around 1800 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 15 dilated, acuminate, ciliate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical-ovate, acute, acuminate, contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a, arising from the apex of the ramicaul, peduncle 1.2″ [3 cm] long, 2″ [5 cm] long overall, congested, successively single, many flowered inflorescence with shorter than the ovary floral bracts with flowers with transluscent yellow sepals, dark red with an oranger border petals and a dark orange lip.

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