Lepanthes acostaei Schltr. 1923 Photo courtesy of Walter Teague

Common Name Acosta's Lepanthes [20th cen Costa Rican Botanist]

Flower Size 1/10" [2.5 mm]

Found in Nicaragua and Costa Rica at elevations of 540 to 650 meters as a miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte with black, slender, reclining to erect stems enveloped by about 4, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, ovate, purplish beneath, round apically, basally petiolate leaf that blooms at most any time of the year on a short, sucessively single, to 20 flowered, racemose inflorescence.

Synonyms Lepanthes blepharistes Rchb.f. 1866

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Checked OK Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; Checked Type OK, *Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 19: 280. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 815 Dodson 1983 as Lepanthes blepharistes

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