Lepanthes quetzalensis Luer & Béhar 1990

Leaf and Flowers Photos by © Edgar Alfredo Mo'Mo'

Common Name The Quetzal Lepanthes [Quetzal Preserve between Cobán and Union barrios in Guatemala]

Flower Size .15" [3mm]

Found in Baja Verapaz, Guatemala in montane forests at elevations around 1600 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped by lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single apical, erect, suborbicular, rounded and denticulate apically, abruptly narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on 1 to 4, distichous, congested, .75" to 1" [2 to 2.5 cm] long, succcessively single, many flowered inflorescence arising on the back of the leaf

Often cited as a synonym of L scopula but differs in the much more distichous inflorescence the wider at one end lip shape and colors of the sepals and petals, as well as earlier bloom time.

CAUTION I have no way of verifying this determination so please use with caution

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References W3 Tropicos Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

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