Lepanthes tonduziana Schltr.1923 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
Photo by © Daniel Jimenez.
Photos by © Pupulin, Used under permission of Epidendra Website CR
Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Epidendra Website
Common Name Tonduz' Lepanthes [Orchid Collector in Central America 1900's]]
Flower Size .15" [3 mm]
Found in Costa Rica at elevations around 1075 to 2100 meters as a miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 6 or so, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, ovate, acute, gradually narrowing into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on 1 to 3, congested, distichous, .5" [1.25 cm] long, successively single, several flowered inflorescence arising on the back of the leaf.
"Closely reated to L turialvae and L melanocaulon in the black sheaths of the ramicauls but the lip separates the new species." Schlechter 1023
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; * Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 151. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 283 Costa Rica Schlechter 1923; Vanishing Beauty; Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 photo fide; .
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