Lepanthes amplectens Luer & Hermans 1995 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
Photos by © Karremans, Pupulin and Bogarin, Used under permission of Epidendra Website CR
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Epidendra Webpage
Common Name The Comprehensive Lepanthes
Flower Size .15" [3mm]
Found in Costa Rica at elevations around 1400 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 9 to 10, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptic, acute, abruptly narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on an erect, short, successively single, few flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Lankester's Epidendra Website CR Checked Type OK; 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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