Lepanthes obtusa Fawc. & Rendle 1901 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes Novon 1993 Photo by Joel McNeal Copyright © and His P-Base Photo Site

Another Flower Photo by Alfonso Doucette Copyright © 2009, and His Flicker website

Another Flower Photo courtesy of Nigel Carter

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Common Name The Blunt Lepanthes

Flower Size 1/16" to 1/8" [3 to 4 mm]

Found in Jamica as an miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with slender ramicauls enveloped by several lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, elliptic, convex, green above and reddish below, obtuse, gradually narrows below into the base leaf that blooms in the winter through fall on a racemose, successively single, several flowered inflorescence.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909; Flora of Jamaica Fawcett & Rendle 1910; Orchids of Jamaica Gloudin & Tobisch 1995 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidianrum Vol XXX Luer 2009 drawing fide

Checked Gloudon OK

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