Lepanthes pygmaea Luer 1987 Photo by © Daniel Jimenenz

Plant and Flowers Photo courtesy of Franco Pupulin.©

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

Full Shade Warm Cool Winter Spring

Common Name The Dwarf Lepanthes

Flower Size .04" [1mm]

Found in Costa Rica in premontane rain forest to cloud forest and disturbed primary forests at elevations around 1500 to 1820 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped completely by 4 or so lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, globose, obtuse, minutely tridenticulate apically leaf that blooms in the winter and spring on 1 or 2, to .2" [.5 cm] long, successively single, several flowered inflorescence,

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR Checked Type OK; *Lindleyana 2: 210. 1987 Luer drawing fide

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