Lepanthes horrida Rchb. f. 1866
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Common Name The Horrible Lepanthes
Flower Size 1" long [2.5 cm] 1/2" wide [1.25 cm]
Found in Costa Rica and Panama in secondary forests at elevations of 1500 to 2500 meters as a warm to cool growing epiphyte with erect slender ramicauls with densely muriculate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying oblong, acute, tridenticulate apically, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms on a fractiflex inflorescence.
Synonyms Lepanthes sanchoi Ames 1923
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR CHECKED Type ?; *Beitr. Orchid.-K. C. Amer. 91. 1866; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 22. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 100. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 280. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923; AOS Bulletin Vol 52 No 12 1983 photo; Orchids of Costa Rica Vol 2 Morales 2009 photo fide;
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