Lepanthes horichii Luer 1987 Photos courtesy of Franco Pupulin.©

Common Name Horich's Lepanthes [German Orchid Collector in Costa Rica Current]]

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Costa Rica in premontane rain forest to cloud forest and disturbed primary forests at elevations of 750 to 2000 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with a suberect ramicaul enveloped by lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, elliptic, acute, abruptly narrowing below into the cuneate base leaf that blooms in the winter, spring and fall on a few, .4" [1 cm] long, successively single, several flowered inflorescence

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR CHECKED Type OK;

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