Lepanthes domingensis Hespenh. & Dod. 1989 Photo by © Wiel Driessen and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
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
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 61 No 10 1992 photo fide; Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000;
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