Lepanthes unguicularis 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 Clawed Lepanthes [refers to the clawed lip]
Flower Size .12" [3 mm]
Found in Cornwall parish of Jamaica in cloud forests at elevations around 600 to 800 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped completely by 4 to 5, microscopically scabrous, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on an erect, filiform peduncle to .2 to .4” [5 to 10 mm] long, arising on the back of the leaf, rachis congested, distichous, .28 to .48" [1.2 1.7 cm] long successively single, several flowered inflorescence with as long as the pedicel 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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