Lepanthopsis lingulata Dod 1986 SUBGENUS Lepanthopsis SECTION Fractipectin Luer 1991
TYPE Drawing by © Donald Dod
Drawing by © Carl Luer
LATER
Common Name The Tongue Lepanthopsis [refers to the protruding midlobe of the lip]
Flower Size .05" [1.25 mm]
Found in Haiti on the Massif de Hotte at elevations of 850 to 950 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 3 to 4 lepanthiform sheaths with minutely ciliate ostia and carrying a single, apical, erect, smooth, elliptical, obtuse, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later spring and summer on an erect, capillary, .2 to .32" [5 to 8 mm] long peduncle, from near the apex of the ramicaul, rachis .4 to .6" [1 to 1.5 cm] long, subcongested, distichous, slightly flexuous, simultaneously few flowered inflorescence with shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying red, glabrous flowers.
"This minute species is apparently endemic to southeastern Haiti. The tiny flowers are borne in a loose, distichous, simultaneously few flowered raceme. The sepals are triangular and acute, the petals are setiform, and the lip, unique in the genus, is three lobed with the protubnerant middle lobe narrow and subclavate." Luer 2000
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Moscosoa 4: 150 Dod 1986 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum VIII Systematics of Lepanthopsis, Octomeria subgenus Pleurothallopsis, Restrepiella, Salpistele and Teagueia Luer 1991 drawing/photo fide;
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