Aeschynanthus leptocladus
An epiphytic lipstick-plant relative from New Guinea, a small subshrub with slender stems, greenish-brown leaves and tubular orange flowers. Specimen labels show it from about 700 m to nearly 2,400 m, so it is a warm-to-cool montane forest epiphyte. Very little has been published about it beyond the original description.
Where it grows wild
An epiphyte of wet tropical forest in New Guinea. The one specimen label with habitat notes describes lowland Podocarpus forest with secondary growth; most collections come from the mountains of Morobe, the Eastern and Southern Highlands and East Sepik.
GBIF specimens with elevations span 700–2,386 m, with clusters around 700–1,000 m and 1,650–2,025 m.
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