Lepanthes guanacastensis Ames & C.Schweinf. 1930 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes Photos by © Daniel Jimenez

Deep shadeWarmWinter

Common Name or Meaning The Guanacaste Lepanthes [The western Coast state near Nicaragua]

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in Costa Rica and Nicaragua in wet forests at elevations of 600 to 1500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with erect ramicauls carrying a single, apical, obovate leaf that blooms in the winter on 1 to 2, longer than the leaf, racemose, successively single, 2 to 5 flowered inflorescence

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR CHECKED Type OK; *Sched. Orch. 10: 45. 1930; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 817 Hamer 1983 drawing fide

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