Lepanthopsis pygmaea C.Schweinf. 1946 SUBGENUS Lepanthopsis SECTION Lepanthopsis

TYPE Drawing by Charles Schweinfurth

LATER

Common Name The Small Lepanthopsis

Flower Size very small

Found in Haiti in cloud forests at elevations of 800 to 1200 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with very small, slender, stems enveloped completely by 4, close, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, terminal, elliptic to oval, rounded apically, fleshy, minutely denticulate margins above the middle, more or less cuneate at the minutely petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later spring on an erect, solitary, to 1" [2.5 cm] long, shortly pedunculate, provided with 2 to 3, inconspicuous, remote, tubular sheaths, rachis spreading to decurved, densely to 13 flowered inflorescence with minute, tubular floral bracts

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *AOS Bulletin Vol 14 # 5 1946 drawing fide; Icones Pleuorothallidinarum VIII Luer 1991 drawing fide;

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