Lepanthes erythroxantha Salazar & Soto Arenas 1996 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes Novon 1993 Photo courtesy of © Noble Bashor

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Common Name The Reddish Yellow Lepanthes

Flower Size .2" [5 mm] Oaxaca Mx., 2408m elev., Cerro San Filipe, epiphytes on small branches

Found in Oaxaca state of Mexico in wet montane forests or cloud forests at elevations of 2000 to 2500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 3 lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect to repent, narrowly elliptic, acute, gradually narrowing below into the base leaf that blooms on a terminal, [1 to 2 cm] long, successively single, few flowered inflorescence holding the flowers most often on the front of the leaf.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

El Genero Lepanthes En Mexico Salazar & Soto 1996 drawing/photo close

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