Lepanthes microglottis Schltr.1923 Photo and Drawing by © Rodrigo Escobar and Carl Luer Epidendra Orchid Photo Webpage

Common Name The Small Lipped Lepanthes

Flower Size

Found in Costa Rica in cloud forests at elevations around 1900 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with slender, erect, enveloped by 5 to 6, lepanthiform sheaths with dilated ostia and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, ovate, acute to obtuse, tridentate, cuneate below into the shortly, narrow, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on 1 to 3, slender, congested, distichous, successively 10 to 15 flowered inflorescence

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 19: 101. 1923. Schlechter

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