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Orchid Species: Lepanthes excedens
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Lepanthes excedens is an orchid species identified by Ames & Correll in 1942.
Genus
Lepanthes (Lths.)
Grex
excedens
(name currently accepted by Kew)
(name currently accepted by Kew)
Parents
Species
Author
Ames & Correll
Year
1942
ORIGIN: Found in Guerrero and Oaxaca states of Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica and Panama at elevations of 1100 to 1900 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with an erect to ascending, red stem enveloped by 2 to more infundibuliform, dilated, acute, lightly costate with the costae and apical margin ciliolate sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, dark green to ruddy, fleshy, glabrous, somewhat undulate- contracted marginally, elliptic to oblanceolate, obtuse to subacute, tridentate apically, tapering below into the shortly petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late winter to spring on 1 to 2, often shorter than the leaf, loosely 3 to 8 flowered inflorescence with ovate-cucullate, acute, glabrous floral bracts that are longer than the ovary.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.1 inches [2.5 mm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
DESCRIPTION: Mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with an erect to ascending, red stem enveloped by 2 to more infundibuliform, dilated, acute, lightly costate with the costae and apical margin ciliolate sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, dark green to ruddy, fleshy, glabrous, somewhat undulate- contracted marginally, elliptic to oblanceolate, obtuse to subacute, tridentate apically, tapering below into the shortly petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late winter to spring on 1 to 2, often shorter than the leaf, loosely 3 to 8 flowered inflorescence with ovate-cucullate, acute, glabrous floral bracts that are longer than the ovary.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.1 inches [2.5 mm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
| Genus Name | Genus | Grex Name | Year | Author | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Add+ | Lepanthes | Lths | camposii | 1996 | Salazar & Soto Arenas |
| Add+ | Lepanthes | Lths | empis | 1984 | Luer |
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