Lepanthes interiorubra Hespenh. 1988 Photo courtesy of Dale and Deni Borders

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Common Name The Red Interior Lepanthes

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

This is a Jamaican miniature, caespitose, warm to cool growing, unifoliate epiphytic species with erect, slendre ramicauls enveloped by 5 to 6, ciliate, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical-ovate, subacute to acute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter with a filiform congested, distichous, .6" [1.5 cm] long, successively several flowered inflroescence arising on the top of the leaf and has glabrous floral bracts

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXX Luer 2009 drawing ok;

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