Lepanthes domingensis Hespenh. & Dod

Lepanthes domingensis Hespenh. & Dod, Moscosoa 5: 256, fig (1989).

Lepanthes domingensis
Lepanthes domingensis Hespenh. & Dod, Photo by Mikael Karlbom 
Lepanthes domingensis
Lepanthes domingensis Hespenh. & Dod, Photo by Wiel Driessen
Lepanthes domingensis
Lepanthes domingensis
Lepanthes domingensis
Lepanthes domingensis Hespenh. & Dod, Photo by Deutsche Orchideen-Gesellschaft e.V. - Gruppe Teutoburger Wald
Lepanthes domingensis Hespenh. & Dod, Video by Mikael Karlbom

Latinh Name: 

Lepanthes domingensis Hespenh. & Dod

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

No synonyms are recorded for this name.

English Name:

The Dominican Lepanthes.

Description: 

With erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by to 8, cornucopiate, marginate, apiculate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coricaeous, subsessile, broadly-ovate to suborbicular, marginate, with slarsely ciliate margins, subacuminate, bidentate-mucronate apically leaf that blooms on a fascile of up to 5, filiform, distally distichously arranged, densely successively single, to 12 flowered inflorescence with dilatate, acute, sparsely ciliate floral bract. 

Distribution:

Dominican Republic, Haiti.

Ecological:

At elevations around 1100 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte.

Flowering times:

Blooms in the summer.

Flower size:

9.0 mm.

Cultivation:

Climate:

Intermediate

Air Circulation:

Medium

Light:

Medium

Humidity Medium:

Fertilizer Monthly

Type:

Collector Team:

D.D.Dod 170

Type Herbaria:

holotype JBSD

Distribution Of Types:

Dominican Republic (Caribbean, Southern America)

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