Lepanthes mentosa Luer 1987 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
Photo by © Jimenez, Used under permission of Epidendra Website CR
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer and Lindleyana 2: 202 Luer 1987 AOS Website
Common Name The Chin-Like Lepanthes
Flower Size .1" [2.5 mm]
Found in Costa Rica at elevations around 1400 to 1500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with a slender ramicaul enveloped by 4 to 7 lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, ovate, acute, broadly cuneate below in to the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring through fall on a congested, distichous, filiform, .32" [8mm] long, racemose, successively several flowered inflorescence arising from behind the leaf with muriculate floral bracts.
Lepanthes mentosa is within a complex of species that includes Lepanthes cribbii, Lepanthes mentosa, Lepanthes monteverdensis and Lepanthes falx-bellica
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; * Lindleyana 2: 201 Luer 1987 drawing fide; 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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