Lepanthes davidsei Luer 1996 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes

Photo by © Daniel Jimenez and his Flickr Orchid Photo Webpage

TYPE Drawing

Drawing by © Carl Luer and Epidendra Webpage

LATE EARLY

Common Name Davidse's Lepanthes [American Discoverer of species current]

Flower Size .12" [3mm]

Found in Costa Rica on the Atlantic slope at elevations around 2400 to 2600 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 8 to 12, minutely ciliate lepanthiform sheaths with oblique dilated ostia and carrying a single, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical-ovate, acute, lightly acuminate, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late summer and early fall on a racemose, distichous, 1.6 to 3.2" [4 to 8 cm] long, successively many flowered inflorescence holding the flowers beyond the leaf

Similar to L myiophorae along with Lepanthes fascinata Luer 1995

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Lindleyana 11: 56. Luer 1996 drawing fide; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003; Vanishing Beauty; Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 photo fide;

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