Lepanthes crucipetala Hespenh. & Dod 1993 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
TYPE Drawing by © Hespenheide & Dod and Moscosoa 7: 177 (1993)
Drawing by © Mark Nir
Common Name The Crossed Petal Lepanthes
Flower Size
Found in the Dominican Republic as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing caespitose epiphyte with a slender, erect, ramicaul enveloped by up to 6, horn-shaped, marginate, acute lepanthiform sheaths with minutely echinate ostia and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, broadly ovate to suborbicular, , acuminate, tridenticulate, marginate, margins minutely denticulate and sparsely ciliate, acute to acuminate, tridenticulate, abruptly narrowing below into a petiolate base leaf that blooms on a fascile of up to 6, capillary, distichous, to .6" [1.5 cm] long, successively single, to 24 flowered inflorescence carrying minute flowers with straw colored sepals, often red around the vessels, petals and lip yellow, basally red.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Moscosoa 7: 176 Hespenh. & Dod 1993 drawing fide; Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000 drawing fide; Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014
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