Lepanthes grisebachiana Hespenh. 1973 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
Photo by © Julio Larramendi
TYPE Drawing by © Hependheide and
Common Name Grisebach's Lepanthes
Flower Size
Found in Oriente province of Cuba at elevations around 325 to 350 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 6 to 9, minutely ciliate-scabrous lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly ovate, obtuse, ciliate margined, cuneate and contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a filiform, loose, lightly flexuous, to .48 to .6" [.45 to 1.5 cm] long , successively single, few flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Brittonia 25(3): 272–273. Hespenh. 1973 drawing fide; The Orchids of Cuba Llamacho & Larramendi 2005 photo fide; Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014
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