Lepanthes

Finding

SITF confirms this plant as Lepanthes domingensis (Apr 2026). Note: corrected the spelling to agree with the POWO. Using the key to Lepanthes found in Hispaniola in Ackerman's "Orchid Flora of the Lesser Antiles" the sepals are not visibly denticulate, the dorsal sepal is more than 3mm; these are 4mm, the lip lobes are almost apiculate. This plant keys to L. domingensis. L. dondodii is similar, but the side lobes would have to be truncated and these are not.

Overall Length Of Growth Cane: 5.4 cm

Number Of Leaves Per Growth Or Cane: 1

Leaf Length: 1.5 cm

Leaf Width: 1.0 cm

Leaf Shape: ovate

Leaf Petiole Length: 3.5 cm

Inflorescence Overall Length: 1.0 cm

Inflorescence Arrangement: terminal

Inflorescence Dist Base To Bud: 0.8

Flower Natural Spread Length: 0.7

Flower Natural Spread Width: 0.4

Dorsal Sepal Length: 0.4

Dorsal Sepal Width: 0.2

Lateral Sepals Length: 0.4

Lateral Sepals Width: 0.15

Petals Width: 0.4

Judging Center: Chicago Judging Center

Award Number: 20261738

Award Date: April 11, 2026

Awarded As: CBR

Eight flowers and four buds on twelve inflorescences to 1.5 cm on a plant 9.0 cm wide x 5.0 cm tall with 15 growths growing within live moss on a 7.5 cm x 8.0 cm cork plaque; leaves ovate to 1.0 cm wide x 1.5 cm long, green, edged burgundy, underside blushed burgundy; flowers golden yellow, sequentially blooming on ramicauls emerging from leaf axils; sepals elliptic; petals semi-hastate, recurved, suffused red; lip hastate distally, red basally; column suffused red; texture crystalline; substance delicate.

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