Lepanthes glicensteinii Luer 1987 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
Photo by © Daniel Jimenenz
Photo by Franco Pupulin.©
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and the Epidendra Orchid Website
Common Name Glicenstein's Lepanthes [American Orchid Enthusiast 1900's]
Flower Size .2" [5mm]
Found in Costa Rica in premontane rain forest to cloud forest and disturbed primary forests at elevations of 1500 to 1800 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped completely by 4+ lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptic, acute, abruptly narrowing below into the cuneate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a .4" [1 cm] long, successively single, several flowered inflorescence holding the flowers on the back of the leaf.
"Easily identified by the congested, short but long pedicellate raceme of relatively large, greenish-white flowers. The apices of the three sepals and both lobes of the petals are narrowly triangular and acute, the petals edged in orange. The pubescent lip is similar to L turialvae." Luer 1987
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR CHECKED Type OK; Lindleyana 2(4): 191, 194. Luer 1987 drawing fide; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 12 2005 photo fide;
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