Lepanthes tudiana Hespenh. & Dod 1990 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes

TYPE Drawing by © Hespenheide and Moscosoa 6: 192 Hespenh. & Dod 1990

LATE EARLY

Common Name Tudy's Lepanthes [Pet name for Sra Annabella S de Dod wife of the second author]

Flower Size .12" {3 mm]

Found in Barahona province of the Dominican Republic on the Sierra Baoruco in wet montane broadleaved forests at elevations around 1350 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with a slender, erect ramicaul enveloped by 5 to 6, microscopically 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 late fall and early winter on an erect, peduncle arching away form the leaf, .16 to .24" [4 to 6 mm] long, rachis congested, distichous, .28" [7 mm] long, successively single, several flowered inflorescence with slightly echinate as long as the pedicel floral bracts.

"Identified by a small habit with a short, congested raceme borne away from the little narrowly obovate leaf by short, arching peduncle. The sepals are acute and denticulate, the upper lobe of the petals is oblong while the shorter lower lobe is triangular. The labellum is barely bilaminate, the lamina being merely thickened margins of oblique lobes that flank a two-times longer, stout, protruding column. An oblong, cilate appendix is present." Ackerman 2014.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Moscosoa 6: 193 Hespenh. & Dod 1990 drawing fide; Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014

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