Lepanthes blephariglossa Schltr. 1918

Photos by © Daniel Jimenez, Used under permission of Epidendra Website CR

Leaf and Flowers Photos by Franco Pupulin.

Full Shade Cool Spring

Common Name The Fringed Lip Lepanthes

Flower Size .2" [5mm]

Found in Costa Rica and Panama in premontane rain forest to cloud forest and disturbed primary forests at elevations of 1500 to 1900 as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with reclining, slender ramicauls enveloped completely by 3 to 5, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, erect, narrowly ovate, acute, abruptly narrowing below into the shortly petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a fascile of successively single flowered inflorecence with distichously arranged flowers held on the back of the leaf.

Synonyms Lepanthes collaris Luer 1987

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR Checked type OK; *Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 36(2): 394. Schlechter 1918.; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 99. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pg 449 Pupulin 2020 photo/drawing fide;

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