Lepanthes cubensis Hespenh. 1973 Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Epidendra Website

Common Name or Meaning The Cuban Lepanthes

Flower Size

Found in Cuba at elevations around 400 to 600 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with slender, erect, ramicauls enveloped by up to 8, cornucopiate, acuminate, lepanthiform sheaths with short hispid ostia and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, broadly ovate, acute to shortly acuminate, tridenticulate, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms on a distally distichous, 1/2" [1.2 cm] long, densely successively single, several flowered inflorescence that is much shorter than the leaf with dilate, acute, hispid floral bracts.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Brittonia 25(3): 269–270 Hespenh. 1973. Drawing fide

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