Leptotes unicolor Barb. Rodr. 1877 Photo courtesy of Andy's Orchids, Copyright © 2002 All rights reserved

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Common Name Concolored Leptotes

Flower Size 3/4 to 1" [2 to 2.4 cm]

Found in Brazil and Argentina as a miniature, pendant, hot to cool growing epiphyte with a short fusiform-cylindrical stem carrying a single, apical, straight or slightly arcuate, fleshy, subcylindric, acute, deeply sulcate above leaf that blooms in the late fall and winter in cultivation and May and June in Brazil with a short, pendant inflorescence with 1 to 2, fragrant, nodding to pendant flowers arising from the leaf base.

Synonyms Leptotes paranaensis Barb. Rodr. 1882

Leptotes unicolor Barb. Rodr. 1877 Photo courtesy of Alejandro Taborda ©

A white color form of the preceding species.