Lepanthes blepharistes Rchb.f. 1866 Photo by © Daniel Jimenez and His Flickr Costa Rican Orchid Photo Page

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Common Name The Eyelash-Like Lepanthes

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Nicaragua and Costa Rica at elevations of 960 to 1100 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped by lepanthiform sheaths with dilated ostia and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, oblong, acuminate, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms on a racemose inflorescence.

CAUTION I have no way of verifying this determination so please use with caution

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR CHECKED Type ok; *Beitr. Orchid.-K. C. Amer.: 92. 1866; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 815 Dodson 1983 drawing no

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