Lepanthopsis densiflora (Barb.Rodr.) Ames 1933 SUBGENUS Lepanthopsis SECTION Lepanthopsis
Photo by © Roberto Martins and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
Drawing by Alfred Cogniaux and von Martius, Eichler, Urban: "Flora Brasiliensis" vol. 3 pt. 4 tab. 113
Common Name The Densely Flowered Lepanthopsis
Flower Size .05" [1 mm]
Found in Minas Gerais state of Brazil in shady forests as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 3 to 4 lepanthiform sheaths with microscopically scabrous margins of the ostia and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, acute, gradually cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a filiform, .6 to 1" [1.5 to 2.5 cm] long, congested, simultaneously many flowered, racemose inflorescence arising from near the apex of the ramicaul carrying the flowers in 2 opposite ranks.
Synonyms Lepanthopsis congestiflora (Cogn.) Porto & Brade 1935; *Lepanthes densiflora Barb.Rodr. 1891; Pleurothallis congestiflora Cogn. 1896
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Iconographia de Orchidaeceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 drawing fide; Orchidaceae Brasiliensis Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 Drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum VIII Systematics of Lepanthopsis, Octomeria subgenus Pleurothallopsis, Restrepiella, Salpistele and Teagueia Luer 1991 drawing fide;
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