Lepanthes grandiflora Ames & C. Schweinf. 1930
Photo by © Daniel Jimenez
Photo by © Kazutoshi Moriya and the Peacewood Orchid Website
Photo by © Karremans, Used under permission of Epidendra Website CR
Common Name or Meaning The Large Flowered Lepanthes
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Costa Rica at elevations above 2500 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with erect, ramicauls enveloped by 6 or so lepanthiform sheaths carrying an erect, coriaceous, elliptic, acute, gradually narrows below into the base leaf that blooms in the fall on a 1" [2.5 cm] long, successively single, several flowered inflorescence arising on the back side of the leaf
Synonyms Lepanthes jennyi Luer 1991; Lepanthes mulderae Luer 1987
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI com Lankester's Epidendra Website CR CHECKED Type OK; Orchids Travel By Air A Pictoral Safari Mulder, Mulder-Roelfsema and Schuiteman 1990 as L mulderaephoto fide; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 photo fide
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