Lepanthes monteverdensis Luer & R.Escobar 1987 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
Photos by © Pupulin & Blanco, Used under permission of Epidendra Website CR
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer and Lindleyana 2: 202 Luer 1987 AOS Website
Common Name The Monte Verde Lepanthes [An Ecological preserve in Costa Rica]
Flower Size .2" [5mm]
Found in Costa Rica at elevations around 1400 to 1550 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphtye with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped completely by 5 to 9, lepanthiform sheaths with minutely ciliate, dilated ostia and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, ovate, subacute, rounded below and contracted into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in winter, spring and the summer on a congested, distichous, successively single several flowered, to .35" [9 mm], racemose inflorescence arising from behind the leaf
"Similar to the common L acostae but differs in the lip with incompletely formed blades below the middle of the halves of the lip. The lip is divided only about a third of it's length leaving a broad body beneath the short column and the small appendix is carried in theis rounded sinus beneath the stigma" Luer 1987
Lepanthes monteverdensis is the head of a complex of species that includes Lepanthes mentosa, Lepanthes falx-bellica and Lepanthes cribbii.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; * Lindleyana 2: 201 Luer 1987 drawing fide; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003; Vanishing Beauty; Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 photo fide;
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