Lepanthes latisepala Ames & C.Schweinf. 1930 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes

Leaf and Flower

Photos by © Karremans, Used under permission of Epidendra Website CR

HOLOTYPE Drawing and collection sheet

HOLOTYPE Drawing and collection sheet by © Ames, Used under permission of Epidendra Website CR

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Common Name The Broad Sepal Lepanthes

Flower Size .1" [2.5mm]

Found in Costa Rica at elevations around 2600 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphtye with suberect, slender ramicauls enveloped completely by 2 to 6, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, elliptic to ovate, acute, minutely tridenticulate apically, abruptly narrowing below into the indistinct petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late winter and early spring on a .2" [5mm] long, successively single few flowered inflorescence.

" Lepanthes latisepala has been described from dried specimens. It appears to be allied to L. erinacea but it is a much smaller plant with a differently shaped leaf. The sepals and petals are also different." Ames & Schweinfurth 1930

SynonymsReferences W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; * Schedul. Orchid. 10: 48. Ames & C.Schweinf. 1930; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003; Vanishing Beauty; Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 photo fide;

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