Lepanthes cuspidata Luer 1995 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes Novon 1993 Photo by © Bogarin and Epidendra Webpage

Common Name The Pointed Lepanthes [refers to the acuminate sepals]

Flower Size .12" [3mm]

Found in Costa Rica at elevations around 500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 4 to 5, minutely ciliate, close fitting lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, erect, coriaceous, broadly elliptical, subacute to obtuse, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on a filiform, racemose, congested, distichous, to .36" [9 mm] long, successively several flowered inflorescence arising behind the leaf with muriculate floral bracts.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Lindleyana 10: 140. 1995 Luer drawing fide;

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