Lepanthes stenophylla Schltr. 1912 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes Novon 1993 Photo by Jay Pfahl

Another Flower Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt

Another Flower Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding

Common Name The Thin Leafed Lepanthes

Flower Size 1/8" [3 mm]

Found from Southern Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador and Venezuela at elevations of 1350 to 1600 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphytic orchid with ascending, arching or erect, slender ramicauls enveloped completely by 4 to 7 lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, elliptic, narrowly elliptic or lanceolate, coriaceous, tridenticulate apically, gradually narrows below into the short petiolate base leaf and blooms in the spring and fall on 1 to 6 per ramicaul, only one flowering at a time, shorter than the leaf to 3/4" [1.9 cm] long, subdistichous, racemose, successively single flowered inflorescence arising on the top of the leaf with 2 to 4 flowers occuring in the spring and fall.

CAUTION The first photo is suspect, the other 2 are correct.

Synonyms Lepanthes archilae Luer & Béhar 1990;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1961 =not = L aquila-borrusiae; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1961 drawing not = L aquila-borussiae; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 2 1969 not = L aquila-borussiae; Orchids of Venezuela An Illustrated Field Guide vol 2 Dunterville & Garay 1979 drawing not = L aqulia-borrusiae; *El Genero Lepanthes Sw. En Mexico Salazar & Soto 1996 drawing/photo fide to the 2nd and third photos, the first photo while close has slightly different petals and lip.

Checked Salazar& Soto OK

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