Lepanthes turialvae Rchb.f.
국표에 없다.
Common Name Turialba Lepanthes [Town In Costa Rica]
Flower Size 1/10" [2.5 mm]
Found from Costa Rica to Colombia, in cloud forests at elevations of 600 to 2550 meters and is a miniature sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte with slender, erect, ramicauls enveloped completely by 5 to 6, loose lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, elliptical to cordate leaf that is cuneate into the petiole and is basally clasping to the ramicaul that blooms in the winter through summer on a shorter than the leaf, .8" to 1.2" [2 to 3 cm] long, successively many flowered, fractiflex inflorescence arising from the apex of the ramicaul and held on the back side of the leaf with only one or two flowers open at a time.
Synonyms Lepanthes brenesii Schltr. 1923; Lepanthes quetzalensis Luer & Behar 1990; Lepanthes scopula Schltr. 1920
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