Lepanthes jimenezii Schltr. 1923 SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Elongatae 1993
Photos by © Pupulin/TYPE Drawing tracings by Schlechter, Used under permission of Epidendra Website CR
Common Name Jimenez's Lepanthes [Costa Rican Discoverer of species 1900's]
Flower Size .1" [2.5 mm]
Found in Costa Rica in very humid forests at elevations of 850 to 1650 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped completely by acuminate, muricate-hispidous, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, obovate, obtuse, gradually narrowing below into the narrow subpetiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer, fall and winter on 1 to 2, erect, to 4" [10 cm] long, laxly successively single, 10 to 20 flowered inflorescence with distichous flowers.
Closely related to L blepharistes but it has wider sometimes almost circular, very obtuse leaves, the longer and narrower lobes of the petals and quite different in the non cilate lower lip margin. L jimenezii has larger and longer cilia at the margins of the sepals. The inflorescence is quite different as well leading this one to be in SERIES Lepanthes.
Synonyms Lepanthes crossota Luer 1987
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR CHECKED Type OK; * Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 19: 281. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923; Lindleyana 2: 188 Luer 1987 as L crossota drawing fide; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003 as L crossata; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 photo fide
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