Lepanthes wendlandii Rchb.f. 1866 Photo by © Daniel Jimenez.

Another Flower Photo courtesy of Lourens Grobler ©

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Common Name Wendland's Lepanthes [German Orchid Gardener 1800's]

Flower Size

Found from Costa Rica and Panama at elevations of 1800 to 3000 meters as a miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped completely by 5 to 7 lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly lanceolate, acute, minutely tridenticulate, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall and winter on 1 to 2, erect, 2" [5 cm] long, successively single, several flowered inflorescence arising on the back of the leaf.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; checked type OK; *Beitr. Orchid.-K. C. Amer.: 91. 1866.

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