Lepanthes hondurensis Ames 1931 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
Photos by © Marni Turkel
Photo by © Ron Parsons
TYPE Drawing and Collection sheet
TYPE Drawing by Ames Collection sheet by © J B Edwards
Common Name The Honduran Lepanthes
Flower Size .12" [3 mm]
Found in Guatemala and Honduras at elevations around 600 to 610 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with erect, ramicauls enveloped by 5 to 6 lepanthiform sheaths with prominent, microscopically dentate ostia and carrying a single, apical, ellipitic-lanceolate, narrowing and tridenticulate apically, narrowing below into the base leaf that blooms in the spring on a congesed, distichous, .6 to .8 mm] long, successively single, few flowered inflorescence arising on the back of the leaf.
"Allied to L appendiculata but this one is a larger plant and has differences in the structure of the labellum. Vegetatively it resemvbles L fimbriata but the petals are very different." Ames 1931
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 44: 43-44. Ames 1931 drawing 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; 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
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