Lepanthes poasensis Luer 1995 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes Photo by © Daniel Jimenenz

Plant and Flowers Photo courtesy of Franco Pupulin.©

Flower Closeup Photos by © Walter Schug and His MesoAmerican Orchid Page

Common Name The Poas Lepanthes [Volcano in central Costa Rica]

Flower Size .2" [5mm]

Found in Costa Rica at elevations above 2400 meters as a miniature to small sized, cold growing epiphyte with erct, slender ramicauls enveloped by 5 to 9, black, tightly adpressed, glabrous to microscopically ciliate-scabrous, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect,coriaceous, suffused with purple beneath, elliptical, acute, slightly acuminate, cuneate and contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring and winter on a slnder, congested, distichous, .4 to .88" [1 to 2.2 cm] long, racemose, successively many flowered inflorescence arising on the basck of the leaf and has lightly muriculate floral bracts

Part of the L disticha complex along with L disticha, L olmosii, L parvilabia and L similis.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Epidendra Website; Lindleyana 10: 164. 1995 Luer drawing fide

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