Lepanthes antilocapra Luer & Dressler

Lepanthes antilocapra Luer & Dressler, Orquideologia 16(3): 15 (1986).

Lepanthes antilocapra Luer & Dressler, Photo by Tomas Bajza

its native range is Panama. 

Latin Name: 

Lepanthes antilocapra Luer & Dressler

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

No synonyms are recorded for this name.

English Name:

The Antelope Antlered Lepanthes.

Description: 

With erect ramicauls enveloped by 7 or so, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptic, acute leaf that blooms in the winter through summer on a fascile of short, successively single flowered inflorescence held on the front of the leaf.

Distribution:

Panamá.

Ecological:

On the Pacific slope in wet montane forests at elevations around 1750 to 2500 m as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte.

Flowering times:

Bloome in the winter through summer.

Flower size:

5.0 mm

Cultivation:

Keep plant in partial shade. Plant can be grown in cool to warm conditions. Pot the plant in fine bark with perlite or sphagnum moss. Water regularly and keep potting media moist.

Typus:

Type Information:

Distribution Of Types: Panama.

Reference: 

- theplantlist.org

- https://www.ipni.org/n/930403-1

- http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:930403-1

-  http://www.orchidspecies.com/lepantilocarpa.htm. 

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calanthe_sylvatica

- https://orchids.fandom.com/wiki/Lepanthes_antilocapra