Lepanthopsis pristis Luer & R. Escobar 1986 SECTION Lepanthopsis Photo courtesy of © Lourens Grobler

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Common Name The Terrible Lepanthopsis

Flower Size 1/16" [3 mm]

Found in Antioquia Colombia at elevations around 1650 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 6 to 9 lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, acute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring and early summer on a dense, simultaneoulsy opening many flowered, 2 to 3 cm] long, racemose inflorescence arising from the apex of the ramicaul and holding the flowers in two opposing ranks.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Systematics of Lepanthospsis, Octomeria subgenus Pleurothallopsis, Restrepiella, Salpistele and Teagueia Vol 8 1991

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