Lepanthes adamsii Hespenh. 1968 Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Webpage

Common Name Adams' Lepanthes [Jamaican Orchid Enthsuiast current]

Flower Size ?

Found in Jamaica at elevations around 228 meters as a miniature to small sized, hot growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 7 to 9, minutely ciliate, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, ovate to ovate-subcordate, acute, contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms on a filiform, congested, distichous, .8 to 2.04" [2 to 5.1 cm] long, successivly single, many flowered inflorescenece with shortly ciliate floral bracts.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXX Luer 2009 drawing fide;

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