Lepanthes pygmaea Luer 1987
Photo by © Daniel Jimenenz
Flower Closeup Photos by © Walter Schug
LATE 
EARLY 
Common Name The Dwarf Lepanthes
Flower Size .04" [1mm]
Found in Costa Rica in premontane rain forest to cloud forest and disturbed primary forests at elevations around 1500 to 1820 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped completely by 4 or so lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, globose, obtuse, minutely tridenticulate apically leaf that blooms in the late winter and earlyspring on 1 or 2, to .2" [.5 cm] long, successively single, several flowered inflorescence,
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR Checked Type OK; *Lindleyana 2: 210. 1987 Luer drawing fide; 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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