Lepanthes tubuliflora Hespenh. 1968 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Tubular Flower Lepanthes [refers to the appearance of the flower]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Middlesex and Cornwall parishes of Jamaica at elevations around 850 meters as a miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with stout, erect ramicauls enveloped completely by 6 to 10, ciliate, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptic, acute to subacute, cuneate below into the short petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a, filiform, congested, distichous, 1.92 to 2.32" [4.8 to 5.8 cm] long including the 1.2 to 1.6 ” [3 to 4 cm] long peduncle, successively single, many flowered inflorescence exceeding the leaf in length, with ciliate, pubescent floral bracts.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXX Luer 2009 drawing fide; Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014
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