Lepanthes candida Endres ex Luer 1995

Photo by Wiel Driessen and his Flicker Orchid Photo Website

TYPE Drawing TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer

Common Name The White Lepanthes [refers to the sepals color]

Flower Size

Found in Costa Rica and Panama in premontane rain forest to cloud forest and disturbed primary forests at elevations of 800 to 1800 as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped completely by 4 to 5 lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single apical, ovate, obtuse, abruptly narrowing below into the shortly petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a very short, peduncle .12" to .4" [.3 to 1 cm] long, successively single few flowered inflorescence.

CAUTION!! The TYPE Drawing above by Carl Luer is absolutely correct, the photos is what people believe in Costa Rica is the real L candida which may be a variable shaped flower. The Type is absolutely correct.

Synonyms .15" [3mm]

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR CHECKED Type OK; 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 Pupulin 2020 photo fide;

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