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|accepted_name=Lepanthopsis
|accepted_authority=(Cogniaux) Ames
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bot. Mus. Leafl.
|place=1(9): 3. 1933
|year=1933
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Pleurothallis sect. Lepanthopsis
|authority=Cogniaux
|publication_title=in C. F. P. von Martius et al., Fl. Bras.
|publication_place=3(4): 591. 1896
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Orchidaceae;Orchidaceae subfam. Epidendroideae;Orchidaceae tribe Epidendreae;Orchidaceae (tribe Epidendreae) subtribe Pleurothallidinae;Lepanthopsis
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Orchidaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Orchidaceae subfam. Epidendroideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Orchidaceae tribe Epidendreae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subtribe</small>[[Orchidaceae (tribe Epidendreae) subtribe Pleurothallidinae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Lepanthopsis]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek lepis, scale, and anthos, flower, referring to small, scalelike flowers
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 495
|treatment_page=page 615
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> epiphytic. <b>Roots</b> fibrous. <b>Stems</b> erect, slender; sheaths enclosing stems, ± imbricate, ribbed, tubular, dilated at mouth, ± ciliate or scabrous on ribs and margin of mouth. <b>Leaves</b> 1, erect, subsessile; blade elliptic, leathery. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, 1–several-clustered racemes, distichous. <b>Flowers</b> opening simultaneously; sepals unequal; lateral sepals variously connate, membranous, glabrous [pubescent]; lip usually simple [3-lobed], not callous, base inflexibly attached to obsolete column foot; column short, broad, wingless, column foot rudimentary, apex hooded; anther apical; pollinia 2, free or adnate to common viscidium, obovoid; ovary articulate with minute, curved pedicel; stigma apical, 2-lobed; rostellum apical. <b>Fruits</b> capsules, deciduous at pedicel (ca. 1 mm), ovoid, 3-valved.</span><!--

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|distribution=Tropics;Mexico;West Indies (Greater Antilles);Central America;South America.
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 35 (1 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=luer1991a
|text=Luer, C. A. 1991. Systematics of the genus Lepanthopsis (Orchidaceae). Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 39: 1–78.
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name=Lepanthopsis
|author=C. A. Luer
|authority=(Cogniaux) Ames
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subtribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Pleurothallis sect. Lepanthopsis
|family=Orchidaceae
|distribution=Tropics;Mexico;West Indies (Greater Antilles);Central America;South America.
|reference=luer1991a
|publication title=Bot. Mus. Leafl.
|publication year=1933
|special status=
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|subfamily=Orchidaceae subfam. Epidendroideae
|tribe=Orchidaceae tribe Epidendreae
|subtribe=Orchidaceae (tribe Epidendreae) subtribe Pleurothallidinae
|genus=Lepanthopsis
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