''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
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(with very few species in
Brazil).
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/ref> The genus is abbreviated in horticultural trade as Lths. Almost all the species in the genus are small and live in cloud forest
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s. Babyboot orchid is a common name.
See also
*''Draconanthes
''Draconanthes'' (from Greek, "dragon flower") is a genus of orchids, comprising two species. These have rigid, fleshy sepals and fleshy petals with a thick lip, and are borne on successively flowered racemes. One species is endemic to Ecuador, ...
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* List of ''Lepanthes'' species
* List of the largest genera of flowering plants
References
* (1799) Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Upsaliensis 6: 85, f. 6.
* (2006) Epidendroideae (Part One). Genera Orchidacearum 4: 362 ff. Oxford University Press.
* (2009) Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXX. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 115: 1-265.
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Pleurothallidinae genera
Taxa named by Olof Swartz