Location ²

Common and widespread (Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia)

Habitat Type ²

Montane forest. Found at elevations of 1700m

Description ²

A small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with slender erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 7 to 12 close fitting, lepanthiform sheaths carrying a single, apical, more or less horizontal, often purple beneath, thinly coriaceous, ovate to narrowly ovate, acute, acuminate leaf with the base broadly to narrowly cuneate into a petiole that is free flowering throughout the year on a congested, successively many flowered, 1 1/5" long, racemose inflorescence.

References ²

Contu, S. 2013. Lepanthes mucronata. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
http://www.orchidspecies.com/lepmucronata.htm

Fuentes y créditos

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Más información

• NaturaLista página del taxón
• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• BOLD Systems BIN search
• Catalogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia
• eFloras.org
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants
• IPNI (with links to POWO, WFO, and BHL)
• NatureServe Explorer 2.0
• SEINet Symbiota portals
• Tropicos
• World Flora Online

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