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Orchid Species: Lepanthopsis microlepanthes
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Lepanthopsis microlepanthes is an orchid species identified by (Griseb.) Ames in 1933.
ORIGIN: Found in Cuba and Jamaica at elevations of 650 to 2300 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Mini-miniature sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte with erect slender, ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3, microscopically scabrous, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, broadly elliptic, obtuse to rounded, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer and fall on a congested, filiform, .2 [5 mm] long including the .08 to .16 [2 to 4 mm] long peduncle, successively single few flowered inflorescence arising from near the apex of the ramicaul.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.04 inches [1 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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