Lepanthes interiorubra Hespenh. 1988 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
Photo courtesy of Dale and Deni Borders
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Webpage
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Common Name The Red Interior Lepanthes
Flower Size .12" [3 mm]
Found in Jamaica occuring in the forests of St Catherine at elevations of 800 to 900 meters as a mini-miniature sized, caespitose, warm growing, unifoliate epiphytic species with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 5 to 6, ciliate, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical-ovate, subacute to acute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late fall and early winter with a filiform peduncle .2 to .36" [5 to 9 mm]long, rachis congested, distichous, .2" [5 mm] long, successivelysingle, several flowered inflroescence arising on the top of the leaf and has glabrous as long as the pedicel floral bracts.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXX Luer 2009 drawing ok to photo fide to drawing; Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014
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