Lepanthes juninensis Schltr. 1921 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes

TYPE Drawing by © Schlechter and the The Swiss Orchid Fooundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Junin Lepanthes [A department of Peru]

Flower Size

Found in Peru as a miniature sized epiphyte with an erect ramicaul enveloped by 7 to 8, tubular-cylindric, minutely hispidulous sheaths with dilated, minutely hispidulous ostia and carrying a single, apical, erect, ligulate, obtusely tridenticulate apex, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms on 1 to 3, erect, to 2.2" [to 5.5 cm] long, densely many flowered, to as long as the leaf, racemose inflorescence

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Peru Vol 1 Schweinfurth 1958

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