Lepanthopsis constanzensis (Cogn.) Garay 1953 SUBGENUS Lepanthopsis SECTION Fractipectin Luer 1991
Photo courtesy of Eladio Fernandez ©
Photo by © Ron Hanko.
Drawing by Carl Luer ©
Common Name The Costanza Lepanthopsis [A town in west central Dominican Republic]
Flower Size .1" [2.5 mm]
Endemic to the Dominican Republic in seasonally moist forests at elvations of 1400 to 1760 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with erect slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 4 to 7 lepanthiform, shortly ciliate sheaths and carrying a single apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptic to broadly elliptic, minutely denticulate margined leaf that blooms in the spring and summer on a loose, distichous, flexuous, successively many flowered with at most 3 at any one time, to 1 3/4" [4.5 cm] long inflorescence arising from the near the apex of the ramicaul.
The elongate, fractiflex inflorescence as well as the rounded collar-like lip with a pair of rounded calli are diagnostic for this species.
Synonyms *Pleurothallis constanzensis Cogn. 1912
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909 as Pleurothallis constanzensis; Icones Pleurothallidinarum VIII Systematics of Lepanthopsis, Octomeria subgenus Pleurothallopsis, Restrepiella, Salpistele and Teagueia Luer 1991 drawing/photo fide; Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000;
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