Lepanthes gerardensis M.A.Blanco 2003 Photo by © Daniel Jimenenz

Another Flower Photo courtesy of Franco Pupulin.©

Full Shade Warm Winter

Common Name Gerard's Lepanthes [Botanist and Co-discoverer of species in Costa Rica current]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Costa Rica in premontane rain forest to cloud forest and disturbed primary forests at elevations of 1000 to 1500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with suberect, stout ramicauls enveloped by 3 to 4 lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apcial, erect, elliptic, minutely tridenticulate apically, gradually narrowing below into the conduplicate, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on a very short, successively single, few flowered inflorescence

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR CHECKED Type OK; *Lankesteriana 8: 19. 2003

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