Lepanthes psyche Luer 1984 Photo by © Daniel Jimenenz

Another Flower Photo courtesy of Walter Teague

Common Name The Butterfly Like Lepanthes

Flower Size .1" [2.5 mm]

Found in Panama at elevations of 1000 to 1300 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with an erect ramicaul enveloped completly by 3 to 5 lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apcial, erect, coriaceous, ovate, acute, minutely tridenticulate, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on several, .8" [2 cm] long, successively single, several flowered inflorescence.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; *Phytologia 55: 192. 1984 wrong link in Epidendra

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