Lepanthes mariae Salazar, Soto Arenas & O.Suárez 1996 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes Novon 1993 Photo courtesy of Noble Bashor

Common Name Mary's Lepanthes [Mrs Greenwood, Oaxaca resident and Orchid Enthusiast current]

Flower Size 1/4" [6mm]

Oaxaca Mx. Cerro San Filipe.

Found only in northern Oaxaca state, Mexico in cloud forests at elevations of 2300 to 2350 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with erect to ascending, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 4 to 5 lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, ovate to elliptical, fleshy-coriaceous, tridenticulate, gradually narrowing below into the short petiolate base leaf and blooming in the spring on 1 to 3 per ramicaul with only one blooming at a time, always shorter than the leaf, to .6" [1.5 cm] long, successively single flowered with up to 4 flowers, distichous, slightly flexuous, racemose inflorescence holding the flowers close against the back of the leaf.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

El Genero Lepanthes en Mexico Salazar & Soto 1996 drawing fide/photo fide

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