Lepanthes poasensis Luer 1995 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
Photo by © Daniel Jimenenz
Photo by © Franco Pupulin
Photos by © Walter Schug
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name The Poas Lepanthes [Volcano in central Costa Rica]
Flower Size .2" [5mm]
Found in Costa Rica in very humid pluvial and cloud forests at elevations of 100 to 2400 meters as a miniature to small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with erct, slender ramicauls enveloped by 5 to 9, black, tightly adpressed, glabrous to microscopically ciliate-scabrous, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect,coriaceous, suffused with purple beneath, elliptical, acute, slightly acuminate, cuneate and contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring and summer on a slnder, congested, distichous, .4 to .88" [1 to 2.2 cm] long, racemose, successively many flowered inflorescence arising on the back of the leaf and has lightly muriculate floral bracts
Part of the L disticha complex which includes L olmosii, L parvilabia, L similis and L casasae but differs in the light colored, obliquely acuminate sheaths of the ramicaul
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Epidendra Website; * Lindleyana 10: 164 Luer 1995 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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