Lepanthes cubensis Hespenh. 1973 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes

TYPE Drawing by © Hespenheide and The Epidendra Website

Common Name or Meaning The Cuban Lepanthes

Flower Size .08" [2.2 mm]

Found in Cuba at elevations in wet montane, broadleaved forests at elevations around 400 to 600 meters as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with slender, erect, ramicauls enveloped by 6 to 8, cornucopiate, minutely muricate-cilate, acuminate, lepanthiform sheaths with short hispid ostia and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, broadly ovate, acute to shortly acuminate, tridenticulate, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms on an erect, much shorter than the leaf, peduncle .4" [1 cm] long, rachis .48" [1.2 cm] long, distally distichous, congested, densely successively single, many flowered inflorescence with dilate, acute, hispid, shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Brittonia 25(3): 269–270 Hespenh. 1973. Drawing fide; Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014

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