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Babyboot orchids

Lepanthes

Also called Babyboot Orchid

Babyboot orchids
Photo: Quimbaya, CC BY-SA 2.0
Family
Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Grows as
Orchid

About

Lepanthes (from Greek "scaled-flower") is a large genus of orchids with about 800–1000 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. Almost all the species in the genus are small and live in cloud forests. Babyboot orchid is a common name.

Other Lepanthes plants

Lepanthes acuminata · Lepanthes calodictyon · Luquillo Mountain babyboot orchid · Lepanthes excedens · Lepanthes filamentosa · Lepanthes guatemalensis · Lepanthes helicocephala · Lepanthes helleri · Lepanthes johnsonii · Lepanthes kokonuko · Lepanthes lucifer · Lepanthes machogaffensis

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lepanthes by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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