Lepanthes piepolis Dod 1993 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
Photo by © Linda and Michael Karlbom
TYPE Drawing by © Dod and Moscosoa 7: 188 Dod 1993
Common Name The Pie Pol Lepanthes
Flower Size minute
Found in The Dominican Republic at elevations of 1000 to 1500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls envelopepd by 7, cornucopiate, marginate, acute, ciliate margined lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptic-lanceolate, minutely denticulate margin, acute, tridenticulate apically, narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on to 4, capillary, distally distichous, dense, successively single to 20 flowered inflorescence that is much shorter than the leaf.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Moscosoa 7: 185 Dod 1993 drawing fide; Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000; Orquideas de La Republica Dominicana y Haiti Fernandez 2007 as L piepolensis photo fide;
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