Lepanthes appendiculata Ames 1923 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
Photo by © Daniel Jimenez.
Photo by Noble Bashor
TYPE Drawing by © M Soto and El Genero Lepanthes Sw. En Mexico Salazar & Soto 1996
Common Name The Appendaged Lepanthes
Flower Size .12" [3mm]
Found in southern Mexico, Guatemala and El Salvador in pine-oak and cloud forests at elevations of 1200 to 2500 meters as a rare, mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with erect to arching, slender ramicauls enveloped by 6 to 7, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acute, tridenticulate and truncate apically, convex, coriaceous, gradually narrows below into the sulcate petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer and fall on 2 to 6 per ramicaul, only one blooming at a time, on a short to 3/8" [1 cm] long, filiform, distichous, flexuous, successively single, 4 to 10 flowered inflorescence that arises on top of the leaf
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Las Orquedias De El Salvador Vol 2 Hamer 1974 drawing/photo fide; Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 drawing fide; Selbyana Vol 10 Orchids of Central America Hamer 1988 drawing fide; El Genero Lepanthes Sw. En Mexico Salazar & Soto 1996 Drawing/photo fide; Lepanthes de Guatemala Archia 2001 photo fide; Diversity of Pleurothallidinae in Guatemala: An Endangered Orchid Subtribe with High Economic and Horticultural Potentials Edgar Mo Mo, Cetzal, Basu and Vega 2017 photo fide; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018
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