Baskervilla leptantha Dressler 1993 TYPE Photo by © Dressler and The Epidendra Website

Common Name The Narrow Flowered Baskervilla

Flower Size

Found in Cartago province of Costa Rica at elevations around 1000 to 1900 meters as a cool growing terrestrial with 6 to 8, rosulate, ovate to elliptic-ovate, acute, gradually narrowing below into the basally clasping, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal, erect, peduncle 11.2 to 12.8" [28 to 32 cm] long, provided with a few, tubular, foliaceous below, rachis 3.2 to 4.8" [8 to 12 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, shorter than the ovary floral bracts.

"The flowers of B. leptantha are nearly as long as those of B. colombiana, but its parts are distinctly narrower, as the specific epithet suggests. The lateral sepals of B. colombiana are .16 to .2" [4 to 5 mm] wide, while those of B. leptantha are less than .12" [3 mm] wide; the petals of B. leptantha are widest just above where they bend back, but they are not distinctly lobed as are the petals of B. colombiana; the claw of the lip is united with the column for about .08" [2 mm] in B. leptantha, while they are united for less than .04" [1 mm] in B. colombiana." Dressler 1993

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Orquídea (Méx.) 13(1-2): 265-267. Dressler 1993 photo/ fide;

Orquídea (Mexico City), n.s., 13(1-2): 266-267. Dressler 1994 photo fide;

Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hamel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003

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