Lepanthes croatii Luer 2010 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes

TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundantion at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name or Meaning Croat's Lepanthes [American Collector of species, Missouri Botanical Garden Botanist current]

Flower Size .24" [6 mm]

Found in Cochabamba department of Bolivia without elevational data as a mini-miniature sized epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 4 to 6, microscopically ciliate, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, acute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on 2 to 3, erect, congested, curved, 2.4" [6 cm] long, including the .8" [2 cm] long peduncle, successively single, many flowered inflorescence arising on the top of the leaf.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXXI Luer 2010 Luer drawing fide;

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