Lepanthes zapotensis Dod 1993 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes

TYPE Drawing by © D Dod and Moscosoa 7: 196 Dod 1993

Common Name The Zapoten Lepanthes [An area in the Bahoruco Mountain National Park near the southwestern border with Haiti]

Flower Size .24” [6 mm]

Found in the Dominican Republic in primary forests at elevations around 1500 meters as a miniature to small sized, cool growing epiphyte with erect to ascending ramicauls enveloped by 6 to 8, ribbed, microscopically echinate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, elliptic-ovate to ovate-triangular, acute, basally rounded into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on 1 to 8, peduncle .75" [1.8 cm] long, rachis 1.08" [2.7 cm] long, adpressed to the leaf, successively single, many flowered inflorescence.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Moscosoa 7: 196 Dod 1993 drawing fide;

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