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Lepanthes concinna is an orchid species identified by Sw. in 1799. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Lepanthes ovalis.
ORIGIN: Found in Jamaica as a miniature, caespitose, unifoliate, hot to warm growing epiphytic species occurring at elevations of 700 to 800 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Found in Jamaica as a miniature, caespitose, unifoliate, hot to warm growing epiphytic species occurring at elevations of 700 to 800 meters with erect ramicauls enveloped completely by tubular, longitudinally nerved, dilated, muricate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, membraceous, ovate to narrowly ovate, shortly and widely acuminate, finely tridenticulate apically, widely round and cuneate into the petiolate base leaf that blooms with a fascicle of filiform, distally distichously, 1 to 2 [2.5 to 5 cm] long including the .4 to 1 [1 to 2.5 cm] long peduncle, densly few to several flowered, racemose inflorescence that are shorter than the leaves and having minute flowers occurring at any time of the year.
FLOWER SIZE: 1/8 inch [0.35 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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