Lepanthopsis prolifera Garay 1954 SECTION Lepanthopsis Photo by © Pieter C. Brouwer and his Nature Photo Website

Common Name or Meaning The Prolific Lepanthopsis [One growing on the top of another]

Flower Size .1" [2 mm]

Found in NE Colombia at elevations of 1800 to 2200 meters as a small to medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 4 to 8 minutely ciliate, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, acute, cuneate belwo into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on an erect, 1" [2.5 cm] long, congested, simultaneously many flowered, racemose inflorescence arising from the apex of the ramicaul.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothalidinarum Vol VIII Luer 199

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