Lepanthes antilocapra Luer & Dressler 1986 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
Photos by © Bogarin, Used under permission of Epidendra Website CR
Photo by Daniel Jimenez
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name The Antelope Antlered Lepanthes
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Costa Rica and Chiriqui department of Panama on the Pacific slope in wet montane forests at elevations around 1750 to 2500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped by 7 or so, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptic, acute leaf that blooms in the winter through summer on a fascile of short, successively single flowered inflorescence held on the front of the leaf
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Lankester's Epidendra Website CR CHECKED type OK; * Orquideologia Vol 16 #3 1986 drawing/photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 84 #7 Karremans & Jimenez 2015 photo fide;
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