Leptotes pauloensis Hoehne 1934

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Common Name The Sao Paulo Leptotes

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in Espiritu Santo, Rio de Janiero, Sao Paulo, Parana and Santa Catarina states of Brazil in montane rainforests at elevations of 700 to 1000 meters as a warm to cool growing, epiphytic miniature with fusiform, elongate, pseudobulbs carrying a single, terete, ventrally furrowed, crinkled leaf that blooms in the late spring and summer in cultivation.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Orchidacearum Brasilienses II Castro 2006