Lepanthes ovalis

Lepanthes ovalis Fawc. & Rendle, Fl. Jamaica [Fawcett & Rendle] 1: 71 (1911).

Lepanthes ovalis Fawc. & Rendle, Photo by Bernd Roemer

Lepanthes ovalis Fawc. & Rendle, Photo by Kevin Holcomb

its native range is Jamaica (Blue Mountains).

Latinh Name: 

Lepanthes ovalis Fawc. & Rendle

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

Epidendrum ovale Sw.

Lepanthes concinna Sw.

Lepanthes crassifolia Rchb.f.

English Name:

The Oval Lepanthes.

Description: 

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, 2.5 to 5 cm long including the .1 to 2.5 cm long peduncle, densly few to several flowered, racemose inflorescence that are shorter than the leaves and having minute flowers occuring at any time of the year. 

Distribution:

Jamaica.

Ecological:

As miniature, caespitose, unifoliate, hot to warm growing epiphytic species occuring at elevations of 700 to 800 m.

Flowering times:

Blooms at any time of the year.

Flower size:

5 mm.

Cultivation:

Climate: 

Intermediate

Air Circulation:

Medium

Light: 

Medium

Humidity:

Medium

Fertilizer:

Bimonthly

Type: