Lepanthes droseroides

 Lepanthes droseroides Luer, Lindleyana 2(4): 188 (1987) (1987).

Lepanthes droseroides Luer, Photo by David Carazo Morales

its native range is Costa Rica to Panama.

Latin Name: 

Lepanthes droseroides Luer

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

No synonyms are recorded for this name.

English Name:

The Drosera-Like Lepanthes (refers to a Sundew leafs resemlance to the appendix).

Description: 

With erect, slender ramicauls enveloped completely by 2 to 6, tight, blackish lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, ovate to orbicular, shortly acuminate, abruptly narrows below into the cuneate, indistinct petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a short to 2.5 cm long, successively few, several flowered inflorescence holding the flower on the front of the leaf.

Distribution:

Costa Rica, Panamá. 

Ecological:

In wet montane forests at elevations of 2700 to 2800 m as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphtye.

Flowering times:

Blooms in the fall.

Flower size:

3.0 mm.

Cultivation:

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

Typus:

Reference: 

theplantlist.org

https://www.ipni.org/n/933858-1

http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:933858-1

http://www.orchidspecies.com/lepdroseroides.htm

https://orchids.fandom.com/wiki/Lepanthes_droseroides