Lepanthes atrata Endres ex Luer 1995 Photos by © Bogarin, Used under permission of Epidendra Website CR
Another Plant Photos courtesy of Franco Pupulin.
Common Name The Flat Black Lepanthes
Flower Size .1" [2.5mm]
Found in Costa Rica in premontane rain forest to cloud forest and disturbed primary forests as a mini-miniature sized epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped completely by 11 to 14, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single apical, erect, coriaceous, ovate, acute, gradually narrowing below into the shortly, petiolate base leaf that blooms on an erect, 1" [2.5 cm] long, distichous, successively single, several flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Lankester's Epidendra Website CR CHECKED Type OK; *Lindleyana 10: 135. 1995
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