Lepanthes elegans Luer 1995 Photo by © Daniel Jimenez.

Leaf and Flower Photos courtesy of Franco Pupulin.©

Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Daniel Jimenez ©

Common Name The Elegant Lepanthes

Flower Size .15" [3 mm]

Found in Costa Rica and Panama in primary forests at elevations around 1600 to 1700 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped completely by 4 to 6 lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptic, tridenticulate apically, abruptly narrowing into the cuneate base leaf leaf that blooms in the winter on a single successively single few flowered inflorescence

Similar to L guardiana, L daniel-jimenezii and L ferreliae but differs from L guardiana by the red and yellow upper lobe of the petals and hairless margined sepals, from L elegans by the the narrow sepals and the upper lobe of the petals are narrowly oblong and long, and lastly from L daniel-jimenezii by the longer and protruding far from the appendix column.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR CHECKED Type OK;

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