Lepanthes williamsii Salazar & Soto Arenas 1992 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes Novon 1993 Photo by © Rodolfo Hernandez

Another Flower? Photo by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website

Common Name Williams' Lepanthes [L.O.Williams Orchid Taxomonist 1900's]

Flower Size .2" [6 mm]

Found in Mexico and Guatemala in the sierra Madre de Chiapas in protected cloudforests at elevations around 2540 to 3000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte occuring lowdown on tree trunks in moss with erect, ramicauls enveloped by 3 to 5, scarious, brownish, thin, shortly imbricating, densely ciliate-papilose, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying, a single, apical, fleshy, elliptic, obtuse to acute, tridenticulate apically, narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on to 8, .4 to .6" [1 to 1.5 cm] long, successively single flowered inflorescence.

CAUTION The Orchid in both photos differs alot from the photo in The Genus Lepanthes in Mexico Salazar & Soto 1996 as well as the photo in Orchids of Mexico Hagsater, Salazar, Soto, Jimenez Lopez and Dressler 2005 in the length of the inflorescence, the petals and the lip.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Genus Lepanthes in Mexico Salazar & Soto 1996; Orchids of Mexico Hagsater, Salazar, Soto, Jimenez Lopez and Dressler 2005

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