Lepanthopsis rinkei Luer 2002

Photo by © Karl Siegler plant grown by Byron Rinke

Common Name Rinke's Lepanthopsis [American Orchid Enthusiast current]

Flower Size .1" [2 mm]

Found in Panama as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with an erect, stout ramicaul enveloped by 5 to 6, ciliate, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single erect, coriaceous, broadly elliptical, obtuse to rounded, contracted below to a petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a filiform, to 1.2" [32 cm] long, congested, simultaneously opening, several flowered inflorescence arising from near the apex of the ramicaul with the flowers arranged in 2 rows.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIV Luer drawing fide

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