Lepanthes Kokonuko
''Lepanthes kokonuko'' is a species of orchid from southern Colombia. ''L. kokonuko'' can be easily recognized by its caespitose medium-sized plants, elliptical coriaceous leaves, long loosely, flexuous and distichous inflorescences; strongly revolute lateral sepals, transversely bilobed petals with the upper lobe lanceolate (hornlike), and a bilaminate lip with the blades ovoid–lanceolate with a bipartite appendix. Description The plant is epiphytic, medium in size, caespitose, erect to suberect, up to 11.5 cm tall. Roots slender, flexuous, filiform, ca. 1 mm in diameter. Ramicauls slender, erect to suberect, stout, up to 8 cm long, enclosed by 2–6 lepanthiform sheaths, furrowed, microscopically ciliate along the margins, with a dilated ostia, acuminate. Leaves erect, coriaceous, elliptical, acute, the apex emarginate with an abaxial apiculum in the middle, 1.5–3.5 × 1.0–1.5 cm, the base cuneate contracted into a petiole 4–6 mm long. Inflore ...
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