Lepanthes elata Rchb.f. 1866

Another Plant Photos courtesy of Franco Pupulin.©

Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Daniel Jimenez.©

Full Shade Warm Cold Spring

Common Name The Beautiful Lepanthes

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia in premontane rain forest to cloud forest and disturbed primary forests at elevations of 1500 to 2600 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cold growing growing epiphyte with an erect ramicaul enveloped by a few lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single apical, erect, oblong, acuminate leaves that blooms in the spring.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR CHECKED Type OK; *Beitr. Orchid.-K. C. Amer. 90-91. 1866; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 100. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 178. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 2 COS 1991 photo ok;

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