Lepanthes pubescens Lycaste while small flowers emerge flush

while small flowers emerge flush against the leaf blade with triangular sepals and compact contrasting petals and lip

distinctively shaped blooms

or a well-ventilated terrarium to achieve this

Best grown mounted on cork bark or in a small pot with fine sphagnum moss to accommodate its creeping habit

Lepanthes pubescens Lycaste while small flowers emerge flushA visually stunning miniature species from the cloud forests of Ecuador, prized above all for its long, lanceolate leaves densely covered in fine trichomes that give the surface a rich violet silver iridescent sheen. The epiphyllous flower emerges directly on the leaf and features two sharply acuminate lateral sepals forming an open V shape, framing a jewel like globose labellum with a vivid blue violet iridescent center. Light: Bright indirect light