Lepanthes bradei Schltr. 1918 Photos by © Walter Schug and His MesoAmerican Orchid Page

Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Daniel Jimenez G. in Costa Rica

Another Flower Closeup Photos by © Karremans, Used under permission of Epidendra Website CR

Common Name Brade's Lepanthes [Curator of Rio de Janiero Botanical Garden 1900's]

Flower Size .2" [5mm]

Found in Costa Rica at elevations of 1400 to 1800 meters as a warm to cool growing, mini-miniature, epiphytic species with erect ramicauls enveloped by 3 to 5 lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single ovate, acute, tridenticulate apically leaf that blooms in the spring on a few, 1" [2.5 cm] long successively single, several flowered inflorescence.

SynonymsReferences W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR CHECKED Type OK;

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