Lepanthes bradei Schltr. 1918 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
Photos by © Walter Schug
Photo by Daniel Jimenez G. in Costa Rica
Photos by © Karremans, Used under permission of Epidendra Website CR
TYPE Drawing by © Schlechter and The Epidendra Webpage
Common Name Brade's Lepanthes [Curator of Rio de Janiero Botanical Garden 1900's]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Costa Rica at elevations of 1400 to 1800 meters as a mini-miniature to miniature sized, cool growing epiphytic species with erect ramicauls enveloped by 3 to 5, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single ovate, acute, tridenticulate apically leaf that blooms in the spring on a few, 1" [2.5 cm] long successively single, several flowered inflorescence.
SynonymsReferences 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; Of Men & Orchids Part 1 Jenny 2015 drawing/photo fide; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pg 449 Pupulin 2020 photo/drawing fide;
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