Lepanthes mazatlanensis Solano & Reynaud 2002 publ. 2003 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes TYPE Drawing by © Solano

Common Name The Mazatlan Lepanthes [refers to the orchids location, a town in Oaxaca Mexico]

Flower Size .18" [4.5 mm]

Found in northern Oaxaca state of Mexico in evergreen cloud forests at elevations around 2500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with erect, terete ramicauls with 6 to 7, tubular, obtuse, the margin widened, recurved, muricate lepanthiform sheaths carrying a single, apical, slightly arcuate, elliptic-lanceolate, acute, coriaceous, attenuate, canaliculate into the shortly petiolate base leaf that blooms all year long in cultivation on 1 to 2, peduncle .2 to .28" [5 to 7 mm] long, terete, enveloped at the base by a conduplicate, spathaceous, triangular, acute bract and another above, .8" [2 cm] long overall, rachis to .6" [1.5 cm] long, congested, arising on the back of the leaf, racemse, arcuate, distichous, successively single, 8 to 12 flowered inflorescence with obliquely infundibuliform, obtuse, carinate, shortly apiculate, membraneous floral bract and carrying small flowers with the tepals yelloow diffused with red and yellow on the lip and column.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Orchidacearum Plate 603 Soto 2001 Drawing fide;

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