Lepanthes teretipetala Hespenh. & Dod 1990 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
Photo by © Egon Krogsgaard
Photo by © Linda and Michael Karlbom
TYPE Drawing by © Hespenheide and Moscosoa 6: 190 Hespenh. & Dod 1990
Common Name The Terete Petaled Lepanthes
Flower Size small
Found in western Dominican Republic in wet, montane, broadlleaved forests at elevations of 1200 to 1400 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by up to 7, cornucopiate, acuminate sheaths with echinate ostia and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical-ovate, acute, microscopically denticulate [essentially glabrous], marginate, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter and spring on up to 6, filiform, .28” [7mm] long, successively single to 14 flowered inflorescence with glabrous, shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.
"Similar to the Haitian L furcatipetala. The microscopic denticulation of the essentially glabrous leaf and sepals of this species are greatly exaggerated in the illustration above. The sepals are acute, and acuminate, the most remarkable petals are forked near the base into a pair of long, linear, gracefully curving lobes, each as long as the sepal. They were described as terete but I find them flat, not even semi-terete. The curved apices of the blades of the lip ovderlap beneath the column." Ackerman 2014
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Moscosoa 6: 188 Hespenh. & Dod 1990 drawing fide; Orchidaceae Antillanae nir 2000; Orquideas de La Republica Dominicana y Haiti Fernandez 2007 photo fide; Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014
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