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

TYPE Drawing by © Dod and Moscosoa 7: 193 Dod 1993

LATE EARLY

Common Name The Rudimentary Petal Lepanthes [refers to the very small petals]

Flower Size .08" [2 mm]

Found in the Dominican Republic in primary forests at elevations of 1400 to 1700 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte with a few ascending to erect ramicauls envelopepd by 4 to 8, ribbed and mcroscopically denticulate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, convex above, ovate to suborbicular, obtuse, rounded below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late winter and early spring on 1 to 4, starts shorter becomes longer than the leaf, arising on the back of the leaf, distally distichous, dense, .08"+ [2 cm or more] long, successively single to 28 flowered inflorescence

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Moscosoa 7: 191 Dod 1993 drawing fide;

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