Leptotes pauloensis Hoehne 1934 Photos by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website.
Another Color Photos by © Lourens Grobler
Another Color? Photo courtesy of Michael Götz
LATE and 
Common Name The Sao Paulo Leptotes
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Espirito Santo, Rio de Janiero, Sao Paulo, Parana and Santa Catarina states of Brazil in montane rainforests at elevations of 700 to 1000 meters as a warm to cool growing, epiphytic miniature with fusiform, elongate, pseudobulbs carrying a single, terete, ventrally furrowed, crinkled leaf that blooms in the late spring and summer in cultivation.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Cattleyas and Their Relatives Withner Vol 3 1990 photo ok; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 42 - 43 pg 2626 - 2762 Brieger 2001 photo fide; Icones Orchidacearum Brasilienses II Plate 162 Castro Neto 2006 drawing/photo fide; Orchidees Du Bresil As Orchideas da Serra Do Castello Vol 3 Chiron & Bolsanello 2013 drawing ok/photo ok
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