Lepanthes Pariaensis

''Lepanthes'' (from Greek language, 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).Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
/ref> 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.

See also

*''Draconanthes''
*List of Lepanthes species, 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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Lepanthes,
Pleurothallidinae genera
Taxa named by Olof Swartz