Lepanthes yunckeri Ames ex Yunck. 1938 SECTION Haplocheilos
Another Flower Photo courtesy of James E. Zablotny
Common Name Yuncker's Lepanthes [American Botanist - Original Collector of Species 1900's]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Southern Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras in wet pine-oak-Liquidambar montane cloud forests at elevations of 1400 to 1800 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 5 to 6, lepanthiform, ciliate sheaths and carrying a single, apical erect, fleshy, elliptic to widely obovate, obtusely rounded, apically tridentate, basally widely cuneate and abruptly attenuate into the short petiolate base leaf that blooms at any time of the year on a short, successively single flowered inflorescence with tubular bracts and funnel-shaped floral bracts .
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Las Orquedias De El Salvador Vol 2 Hamer 1974 drawing/photo fide; Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum 5 - 6 Orchids of Mexico Part 2 - 3 Plate 606 Hagsater & Soto 2002 drawing fide
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