Lepanthes

Taxobox
name = "Lepanthes"

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image_width = 240px
image_caption = "Lepanthes ophelma"
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Liliopsida
ordo = Asparagales
familia = Orchidaceae
subfamilia = Epidendroideae
tribus = Epidendreae
subtribus = Pleurothallidinae
genus = "Lepanthes"
genus_authority = Sw.
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = 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

ee also

*"Draconanthes"