Lepanthes vestigialis Bogarín & Pupulin 2010 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
Photo by © Daniel Jimenez
TYPE Drawing by © Bogarín & Pupulin 2010 and OrchideenJ. 17(3): 119. 2010
Common Name The What's Left Lepanthes [refers to the lack of petals and lip]
Flower Size .24" [6 mm]
Found in Costa Rica on the slopes of Rio Platanillo at elevations of 700 to 900 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped by 5 to 7, lepanthiform sheaths with slightly dilated ostia and carrying a single, apical, erect, subcoriaceous, flat, slightly conduplicate, broadly ovate to suborbicular, obtuse-rounded, grey-green, minutely emarginate, abaxially provided with a minute, rounded apicule, shortly cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a racemose, disitichous, fliliform, to .6" [1.5 cm] long, successively flowered inflorescence holding the flowers above the leaf.
Similar to L rigidigitata but it has a lax, flexuous, 5.6" [14 cm] long, racemose inflorescence and L micellilabia but it has a short, congested racemose inflorescence. The other in this similar group of flowers with very reduced petals and lip is L abortiva
"L vestigialis resembles the Ecuadorian species, Lepanthes equus-frisiae, Lepanthes pelorostele , L scrotifera and L rigidigitata, the Colombian species L abortiva, L vargasiiL eros, L isoceles, L micellilabia and L niphas and the Costa Rican L posthon and L spadariae
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * OrchideenJ. 17(3): 119. 2010 et OrchidsJ. 1(1):34. 2011 drawing/photo fide; Lankesteriana 17: 227 Moreno Vieira & Karremans 2017 drawing/photo fide; Orquideas de Farallones de Cali Galindo-Tarazona, Haelterman, Zuluaga Trochez and Sebastian Moreno 2020 photo fide
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