Lepanthes atwoodii Luer 1992 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
Photos by © Daniel Jimenez
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Epidendra Webpage
Common Name or Meaning Atwood's Lepanthes [American Botanist in Costa Rica later 1900's]
Flower Size .2" [5mm]
Found in Costa Rica at elevations around 3000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 5 to 7 dark, closely applied, microscopically scabrous lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single apical, erect, coriaceous, purple suffused beneath, elliptical, acute, abruptly narrowing below into the round, cuneate base leaf that blooms in the summer on a close to the back of the leaf, peduncle .8 to 1.28" [2 to 2.7 cm] long, rachis .6" [1.5 cm] long, congested, distichous, successively single, many flowered inflorescence with shorter than teh pedicel floral bracts.
"Similar to L disticha but L atwoodii is ditinguished by the broad, lightly acuminate sepals, large, broad,trinerved petals considerably longer than teh sepals and uncinate blades of the lip with a trans verse body between the distant apices of the blades. The appendix is reduced to a minute lobule." Luer 1992
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Checked w3 Tropicos type OK; Checked Lankester's Epidendra Website CR OK; * Lindleyana 7(2): 100. Luer 1992 drawing fide; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003 drawing fide; Vanishing Beauty; Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 photo fide;
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