Lepanthes rauhii Luer 1987 Drawing by © Carl Luer and Epidendra Orchid Website

Common Name Rauh's Lepanthes [American Original Collector of species 1900's]

Flower Size

Found in Panama at elevations around 800 meters as a miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte, with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 3 to 5, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, erect, thinly coriaceous, elliptic, obtuse, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a, slender, successively single, few flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

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