Lepanthes calopetala Salazar & Soto Arenas 1996 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes
TYPE Photo by © Gerardo Salazar
Photo by © I. Aguirre
Another Angle Photos by © Noble Bashor
Common Name The Beautiful Petaled Lepanthes
Flower Size .2" [5mm] tall
Found in Vera Cruz and Oaxaca Mexico at elevations around 2000 to 2550 meters in deep woods as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped by 3 to 6, ciliate, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, lanceolate, attenuate, flat, coriaceous, slightly fleshy, tridentate apically, dark green, often purple beneath, the base is cuneate and contracted into the sulcate petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer and fall on a single, .1" to .3" [2 to 7.5 mm] long, on the back of the leaf, successively single, to 15 flowered inflorescence with a tubular-infundibular, glabrous, obtuse, yellowish, transparent scarious bract and distichous, somewhat imbricate, cuculate-infundibular, broadly ovate, obtuse-mucronate, glabrous floral bracts
The first 2 photos above are the type photos so they are absolutely correct.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos,Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *El Genero Lepanthes in Mexico Salazar & Soto Arenas 1996 drawing/photo fide
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