Lepanthopsis comet-halleyi Luer 1991 SUBGENUS Microlepanthes Photos by © Bogarin, Used under permission of Epidendra Website CR

Common Name The Haley's Comet Lepanthes [refers to the lip apex]

Flower Size .1" [2mm]

Found in Costa Rica at elevations around 1500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with slender, suberect ramicauls enveloped by 3 to 6, minutely ciliate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptic, subacute to obtuse, basally rounded and cuneate into the twisted petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a, congested, distichous, 2" [5 cm] long, successively single, several flowered inflorescence.

Said to be conspecific with L helleri with L helleri taking precedence this one would be reduced to a synonym but as you can see they are quite different, so if the determinations are correct it looks like 2 different species.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; *Icones Pleurothalldinarum Vol VIII Luer 1991 *Lindleyana 2(4): 185, 188. 1987 Luer drawing fide

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