Lepanthes bilabiata Fawc. & Rendle 1905 Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Webpage

Common Name The Two Lipped Lepanthes

Flower Size .08" [2 mm]

Found in Jamaica at elevations of 800 to 1280 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 5 to 7, microscopically ciliate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall and winter on a filiform, congested, distichous, .28 to .36" [7 to 9 mm] long including the .08 to .16" [2 to 4 mm] long, successively single, several flowered inflorescence arising on the back of the leaf.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXX Luer 2009 drawing fide;

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