Lepanthes eltoroensis Stimson 1970
SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Breves Luer 1986 SERIES Breves Luer 1996
Photos by Ana Almisa Cuevas Padró and The Herbarium of the Department of Biology, University of Puerto Rico - Río Piedras (UPRRP) Web Site
Drawing by © Erick Noel Bermúdez Carambot and the Ecological correlates and short-term effects of relocation of a rare epiphytic orchid after Hurricane Georges, Raymond Tremblay Researchgate Website
Common Name or Meaning The El Toro Lepanthes [A trail in Puerto Rico]
Flower Size .1" [2.5 mm]
Found in Puerto Rico in wet montane forests at elevations of 700 to 1000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte or lithophyte with a spreading short ramicaul enveloped by 3 to 7, microscopically scabrous lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, subapcial, coriaceous, obovate to oblanceolate, tridenticulate, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms at any time of the year on a terminal, peduncle to .06" [1.5 mm] long, rachis .24" [6 mm] long, congested, subsecund, fractiflex, successively single to 8 flowered, racemose inflorescence.
Closely allied to L selenipetala and L caritensis
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; An Orchid Flora Of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands Ackerman 1995 drawing fide; Ecological correlates and short-term effects of relocation of a rare epiphytic orchid after Hurricane Georges, Raymond Tremblay 2008 Researchgate Website; Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014
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