Lepanthopsis cucullata Dod 1986 SUBGENUS Lepanthopsis SECTION Fractipectin Luer 1991
Photo courtesy of Eladio Fernandez ©
TYPE Drawing by © Donald Dod
Drawing by Carl Luer ©
Common Name The Cowl Carrying Lepanthopsis [refers to the synsepal]
Flower Size .12" [3 mm]
Found only in Haiti and the Dominican Republic in seasonally moist forests at elevations around 950 meters as a miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with erect slendser ramicauls enveloped basally by 4 to 8 lepanthiform, sheaths that have shortly scabrous ostia and carrying a single apical, erect, coriaceosu, elliptic to broadly elliptic, minutely denticulate margined, purple suffused beneath leaf that blooms at most any time of the year on a loose, distichous, flexuous, successively many flowered with at most 2 at any one time, to 5/8" to 2" [1.5 to 5 cm] long inflorescence arising from the near the apex of the ramicaul.
Synonyms Lepanthopsis paryskii Dod 1986
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Moscosoa 4: 145 Dod 1986 drawing fide; Moscosoa 4: 152 Dod 1986 drawing fide; 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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