Lepanthes unguicularis Hespenh. 1968
SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes 1993 Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Clawed Lepanthes [refers to the clawed lip]
Flower Size .12" [3 mm]
Found in Cornwall Jamaica in cloud forests at elevations around 600 to 800 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped completely by 4 to 5, microscopically scabrous, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a, filiform, congested, distichous, .48 to .68" [1.2 1.7 cm] long including the .2 to .4” [5 to 10 mm] long peduncle, successively single, several flowered inflorescence arising on the back of the leaf.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXX Luer 2009 drawing fide;
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