Lepanthes woodiana Fawc. & Rendle 1909 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
Photos by © Orchideen Bildergalerie Lepanthes Website
Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany renz Herbaria Website
Common Name Wood's Lepanthes [English Illustrator for Fawcett & Rendle 1900's]
Flower Size .08" [2 mm]
Found on Mt Diablo in Middlesex parish of Jamaica at elevations of 700 to 900 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 4 to 5, microscopically ciliate, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute to obtuse, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on a congested, distichous, .52" [to 1.3 cm] long, filiform, successively single, several flowered inflorescence arising on the upper surface of the leaf with slightly echinate floral bracts.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Jamaica Fawcett & Rendle 1910; Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000; Icones Pleurothallidianrum XXX Luer 2009 drawing fide; Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014
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