Lepanthes fulva Lindl. 1858 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
What was known as L occidentalis
Photos by © Julio Larramendi
Collection sheet and Drawing by © Schlechter and The Harvard Herbarium Website
Common Name The Brown/Yellow Lepanthes
Flower Size .01" [2.5 mm]
Found in southeastern Cuba in montane forests at elevations around 750 to 900 meters as a miniature to just small sized, caespitose, warm growing epiphyte with approximate, erect, slender, terete ramicauls enveloped by 3, brownish, scarious sheaths and carrying a single, apical, fleshy, oblanceolate-ligulate, obtuse, narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter spring and summer on 2 to 3, slender, arising through a very short spathe, almost to as long as the leaf, to 2.4" [6 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with ovate-cucllate, apiculate, slightly shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying minute, pale yellow flowers.
Synonyms Lepanthes lindmaniana Schltr. 1923; Lepanthes occidentalis Hespenh. 1973
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000; The Orchids of Cuba Llamacho and Larramendi 2005 photo fide; Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014
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