Lepanthes eciliata Schltr.1913
Photos by © Eric Hunt
Photo by © Bogarin, Used under permission of Epidendra Website CR
LECTOTYPE Drawing by © mand the Epidendra Orchid Website
Common Name The Not Ciliate Lepanthes
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Costa Rica at elevations around 1675 to 1800 meters as a miniature sized cool growing epiphyte with slender, suberect to erect, ramicauls enveloped completely by 6 to 12 lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, narrowly elliptical, acuminate, gradually narrowing below into the shortly petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on a .8" [2 cm] long, successively single, few flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms Lepanthes cascajalensis Ames 1923
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR CHECKED Type OK; * Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 12: 203. 1913; Schedul. Orchid. 4: 27. 1923 as L cascajalensis; The Orchids of Panama L.O. Williams & P Allen 1946; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003; AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 2 2006 as L cascajalensis photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 83 #3 2019 photo fide; Vanishing Beauty; Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 as L cascajalensis photo fide; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 photo fide;
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