Lepanthes truncata Luer & Dressler 1986 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes Novon 1993
Photos by © Daniel Jimenez and his Flickr Costa Rica Orchid Photo Website
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name The Truncate Lepanthes [refers to the appearance apical lobes of the petals]
Flower Size .12" [3 mm]
Found in Costa Rica and Boca del Toro department of Panama in wet lowland forests at elevations around 350 to 400 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot to warm, pendent growing epiphyte with slender ramicauls enveloped completely by 4 to 6, close, microscopically ciliate, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, more or less pendent, satiny green, purple blotched, coriaceous, elliptic, subacute, slightly acuminate, subsessile below into the short petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on 1 to 3, filiform, congested, distichous, .68 to 1.08" [1.7 to 2.7 cm] long including the .28 to .68 ” [7 to 17 mm] long peduncle, successively single, few flowered inflorescence arising on the top of the leaf with spiculate floral bracts.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orquideologia Vol 16 #3 pg 9 Luer & Dressler 1986 drawing fide; Lankesteriana 12[3]: 207 - 214 Bogarin & Karremans 2014 photo/drawing fide; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pg 449 Pupulin 2020 photo/drawing fide;
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