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Lepanthes pantomima Luer & Dressler 1986 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes

Side View of Flower

Photos by © Kerry Dressler and Epidendra Orchid Website

TYPE Drawing

TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer

Common Name The Pantomime Lepanthes [refers to the cuteness of the flower reminiscent of a female pantomime]

Flower Size .06" [1.5 mm]

Found in Guatemala and Bocas del Toro department of Panama in wet montane forests at elevations around 350 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with suberect, very slender ramicauls enveloped by 6 to 7, closely adpressed, microscopically rugose, ciliate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, pendent, coriaceous, ovate, satin green, purple margined and beneath, subacute to obtuse apically, subsessile base leaf that blooms in the winter on a filiform, congested, distichous, .52" [1.3 cm] long, successively several flowered inflorescence arising on the top of the leaf with muriculate floral bracts.

Similar to the wide-ranging L calodictyon and sufficiently different from the following to be separate species L tentacula, L barbelifera, L pretiosa, L salatrix, Lepanthes microcalodictyon, L. tortuosa Luer & Hirtz, L. bibarbullata Luer, L volador and the recently described species L. kayii L. Baquero

Synonyms Lepanthes arachnion Luer & Dressler 1986

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI * Orquideologia 16: 3. Luer & Dressler 1986 drawing/photo fide; Orquideologia Vol 16 #3. Luer & Dressler 1986 as L arachnion drawing/photo fide; Orquidea Mex Vol 14 El Genero Lepanthes en Mexico Salazar & Soto 1996 drawing/photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 62 #2 1998 as L arachnionphoto fide; Guatemala Y Sus Orquideas Behar & Tinschert 1998 as L arachnion photo fide; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018

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