Lepanthes rubripetala Stimson 1970 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
Photos by O Rernz and The Herbarium of the Department of Biology, University of Puerto Rico - Río Piedras (UPRRP) Web Site
Collection Sheet by Ana Almisa Cuevas Padró and The Herbarium of the Department of Biology, University of Puerto Rico - Río Piedras (UPRRP) Web Site
Common Name or Meaning The Reddish Petaled Lepanthes
Flower Size .1" [2.5 mm]
Found in Puerto Rico in wet montane forests at elevations of 700 to 1000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte or lithophyte with a spreading short ramicaul enveloped by 3 to 7, lepanthiform sheaths with cilate ostia and puberulent ribs and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, ovate, acute to acuminate, minutely tridenticulate, not marginate, gradually narrowing below into the subpetiolate base leaf that blooms at any time of the year on a fascile of to 5, terminal, capillary, distally distichously .8" [2 cm] long, fractiflex, densely, successively single, many flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; An Orchid Flora Of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands Ackerman 1995; Orchidaceae Antillanae; Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014;
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