Lepanthes pulchella (Sw.) Sw. 1799 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
Leaf and FlowerPhotos by © Egon Krogsgaard
DrawingDrawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at he JanY Renz Herbaria Webpage
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Common Name The Beatiful Lepanthes
Flower Size .12" [3 mm]
Found in the Blue Mountains of Jamaica in cloud forests at elevations around 1500 to 2300 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with erect, suberect to horizontal, slender ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3, microscopically scabrous lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, broadly elliptical, obtuse, broadly cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late winter through early fall on a filiform, erect, congested, distichous, .64 to .92" [1.6 to 2.3 cm] long including the .2 to .48" [5 to 12 mm] long peduncle, successively single, several flowered inflorescence that exceeds the leaf in length.
Synonyms *Epidendrum pulchellum Sw. 1788; Hormidium pulchellum (Sw.) Benth. & Hook.f. ex B.D.Jacks 1893
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXX Luer 2009 drawing fide; Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014;
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