Lepanthes tridentata (Sw.) Sw. 1799 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
Drawing by © Carl Luer
LATER
through EARLY
Common Name The Three Tooted Lepanthes
Flower Size .1" [2 mm]
Found in Portland, St Andrew and St Thomas parishes of Jamaica at elevations of 1200 to 2300 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with slender, erect, ramicauls enveloped by 4 to 5, microscopically scabrous lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptic, subacute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms at most any time of the year on a, racemose, arising from on top of the leaf, peduncle filiform [8 to 9 mm] long, rachis to 2" [8 cm] long, congested, distichous, successively single, several flowered inflorescence with as long as to just shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.
Synonyms *Epidendrum tridentatum Sw. 1788
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909; Flora of Jamaica Fawcett & Rendle 1910; Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 as L loddigesii not = l tridentata drawing fide; Flore Descriptive des Antilles Francaises H. Stehle 1939 not; Moscosoa 6: 171 Hespenh. & Dod 1990 ; Orchids of Jamaica Glouden & Tobisch 1995 drawing hmm; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXX Luer 2009 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 87 #1 2018 drawing fide; Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014
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