Lepanthes

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Lepanthes
Lepanthes ophelma
Lepanthes ophelma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Epidendroideae
Tribe: Epidendreae
Subtribe: Pleurothallidinae
Genus: Lepanthes
Sw.
Species

Some 700, including:

  • Lepanthes aculeata
  • Lepanthes auriculata
  • Lepanthes calodictyon
  • Lepanthes convexa
  • Lepanthes cymbium
  • Lepanthes eciliata
  • Lepanthes fiskei
  • Lepanthes gargantua
  • Lepanthes helicocephala
  • Lepanthes imbricans
  • Lepanthes lucifer
  • Lepanthes manabina
  • Lepanthes menatoi
  • Lepanthes nummularia
  • Lepanthes ophelma
  • Lepanthes ovalis
  • Lepanthes pilosella
  • Lepanthes ribes
  • Lepanthes simplex

Lepanthes (from Greek "scaled-flower") is a large genus of orchids with about 700 species, distributed in the Antilles and from Mexico through Bolivia (with very few species in Brazil). The genus is abbreviated in horticultural trade as Lths.

Lepanthes microphyta Barb.Rodr. has been renamed in 2005 as Anathallis microphyta (Barb.Rodr.) C.O.Azevedo & Van den Berg

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