Lepanthes domingensis Hespenh. & Dod. 1989 Photo by © Wiel Driessen and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website

Full Shade Warm

Common Name The Dominican Lepanthes

Flower Size minute

Found in Dominican Republic and Haiti at elevations around 1100 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by to 8, cornucopiate, marginate, apiculate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coricaeous, subsessile, broadly-ovate to suborbicular, marginate, with slarsely ciliate margins, subacuminate, bidentate-mucronate apically leaf that blooms on a fascile of up to 5, filiform, distally distichously arranged, densely successively single, to 12 flowered inflorescence with dilatate, acute, sparsely ciliate floral bract

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 61 No 10 1992 photo fide; Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000;

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