Lepanthes guatemalensis Schltr. 1912 SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Elongatae 1993
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Photo by Eric Hunt
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Common Name The Guatemala Lepanthes
Flower Size .2" [5mm]
Found in Mexico, Guatemala and El Salvador as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte at elevations around 1350 to 1850 meters with ascending to erect, slender ramicauls enveloped completely by 3 to 5 lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, elliptic to suborbicular, obtuse, tridenticulate, fleshy-coriaceous, abruptly narrows below into the shortly petiolate base leaf and blooms in the summer on 1 to 3 per ramicaul, with only one flowering each time, an erect, much longer than the leaf, to 1.4" [3.5 cm] long, filiform, lax, flexuous, successively single flowered inflorescence arising on either side of the leaf and carrying obliquely infundibuliform, acute-acuminate, conduplicate, brown, scarious floral bracts and has up to 5 successive flowers.
Similar to Lepanthes tenuiloba and also Lepanthes × tuerckheimii Schltr. 1912 which has often been given as a synonym of L guatemalensis but actually is a natural hybrid between this species and L verapazensis.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Las Orquedias De El Salvador Vol 2 Hamer 1974 as L gibberosa drawing/photo fide; Las Orquedias De El Salvador Vol 2 Hamer 1974 drawing good/photo ok; Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 as L gibberosa drawing fide; Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 drawing good or dried; Selbyana Vol 10 Orchids of Central America Hamer 1988 as L gibberosa drawing fide; Selbyana Vol 10 Orchids of Central America Hamer 1988 drawing fide; El Genero Lepanthes Sw. En Mexico Salazar & Soto 1996 drawing/photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 62 #2 1998 photo fide; Guatemala Y Sus Orquideas Behar & Tinschert 1998 photo fide; Lepanthes de Guatemala Archila 2001 drawing /photo fide; ; Icones Orchidacearum 5 - 6 Orchids of Mexico Part 2 - 3 Plate 601 Hagsater & Soto 2002 drawing fide; Guia de Orquideas de Chiapas Carlos Rommel Beutelspacher Baigts 2013 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 84 #7 Karremans & Jimenez 2015; Diversity of Pleurothallidinae in Guatemala: An Endangered Orchid Subtribe with High Economic and Horticultural Potentials Edgar Mo Mo, Cetzal, Basu and Vega 2017 photo fide; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018
Checked Drawing Hagsater OK
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