Lepanthes marcanoi Hespenh. & Dod 1993 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes

TYPE Drawing by © D Dod and Moscosoa 7: 184 Dod 1993

Common Name The Massif de la Hotte Lepanthes [A mountain range in eastern Haiti]

Flower Size .08" [2 mm]

Found in Dominican Republic in remnant primary broadleaved forests at elevations around 1200 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with stout, erect to ascending ramicauls enveloped by 7, articulate, striate and microscopically echinate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, narrowly elliptic, acute, margins sparsely ciliate, acute below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on a 1 to 6, erect, .08" [2 cm] long, arising on the back of the leaf, congested, successively single to 24 flowered inflorescence carrying totally purple flowers.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Moscosoa 7: 183 Dod 1993 drawing fide;

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