Lepanthes elliptica Fawc. & Rendle 1909 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
Photo by © Lisa Thoerle
Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Webpage
Common Name The Elliptic Lepanthes [refers to the shape of the leaf]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Middlesex and St Catherine parishes of Jamaica at elevations around 600 to 900 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with erect to somewhat arching, slender ramicauls enveloped by 6 to 8, long-ciliate, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, erect, more or less purple suffused beneath, elliptical, acute to subacute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall to winter on a filiform, congested, distichous, .4 to .52" [10 to 13 mm] long including the .12 to .24" [3 to 6 mm] long peduncle, successively single, several flowered inflorescence arising on the back of the leaf .
Synonyms Lepanthes arcuata Fawc. & Rendle 1909
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXX Luer 2009 drawing fide; Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014
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