Lepanthes guatemalensis Schltr. 1912 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes Novon 1993 Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt

Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of © Mike Grauer

Another color form Photo courtesy of Weyman Bussey, plant grown by Jim Hamilton Petite Plaisance Orchids

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Common Name The Guatemala Lepanthes

Flower Size .2" [5mm]

Found in Mexico, Guatemala and El Salvador as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte at elevations around 1350 to 1850 meters with ascending to erect, slender ramicauls enveloped completely by 3 to 5 lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, elliptic to suborbicular, obtuse, tridenticulate, fleshy-coriaceous, abruptly narrows below into the shortly petiolate base leaf and blooms in the summer on 1 to 3 per ramicaul, with only one flowering each time, an erect, much longer than the leaf, to 1.4" [3.5 cm] long, filiform, lax, flexuous, successively single flowered inflorescence arising on either side of the leaf and carrying obliquely infundibuliform, acute-acuminate, conduplicate, brown, scarious floral bracts and has up to 5 successive flowers.

Similar to L tenuiloba and also Lepanthes × tuerckheimii Schltr. 1912 which has often been given as a synonym of L guatemalensis but actually is a natural hybrid between this species and L verapazensis.

Synonyms Lepanthes gibberosa Ames 1923;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Las Orquedias De El Salvador Vol 2 Hamer 1974 as L gibberosa drawing/photo hmm; Las Orquedias De El Salvador Vol 2 Hamer 1974 drawing not/photo not?; Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 as L gibberosa drawing fide; Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 drawing not or dried; El Genero Lepanthes Sw. En Mexico Salazar & Soto 1996 drawing/photo fide; Icones Orchidacearum 5 - 6 Orchids of Mexico Part 2 - 3 Plate 601 Hagsater & Soto 2002 drawing fide

Checked Drawing Hagsater OK

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