Lepanthes ekmanii Schltr. 1923 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
Photo by © Julio Larramendi
Colection Sheet by © Ekman and Harvard Herbarium Website
Common Name Ekman's Lepanthes [Swedish Botanist 1900's]
Flower Size .16" [4 mm]
Found in Santiago de Cuba Province of Cuba in wet montane forests at elevations of 1000 to 1900 meters as a mini-miniature sized, caespitose, cool growing epiphyte or lithophyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by up to 10, narrow, infundibuliform, acuminate, muriculate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, ovate-elliptic, shallowly emarginate margins, coriaceous, acuminate, minutely tridenticulate, rounded below into the subsessile base leaf that blooms at most any time of the year on a terminal, arising on the adaxial side of the leaf, shorter to almost as long as the leaf, distichous, subdensely successively single to 2, 3 to 5 flowered inflorescence
Synonyms Lepanthes ovata Ames & C.Schweinf. 1925
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000; The Orchids of Cuba Llamacho and Larramendi 2005 photo fide; Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014
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