Lepanthes edwardsii Ames 1933
Leaf and Flower Photos by © Walter Schug and His MesoAmerican Orchid Page
Common Name Edwards' Lepanthes [English Illustrator 1900's]]
Flower Size 1/2" to 5/8" [1.2 to 1.7 cm]
Found in Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica at elevations of 1300 to 1500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphytic species with erect ramicauls enveloped basally by infundibuliform, hispidulous sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, ovate, rounded apically, marginate, purple below, abruptly narrowing below into the short petiolate base leaf that blooms on and off throughout the year on a simple, flexuous, 3 to 7 successively flowered inflorescence holding the giant [for the plant] sized flower above the leaf.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR CHECKED Type OK; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1024 Hamer/Dodson 1984 drawing fide; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006 drawing/photo fide;
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