Lepanthes ariasiana Luer & L.Jost 1998 GENUS Lepanthes SUBGENUS Brachycladium SECTION Amplectentes Luer 1994 Drawing by Luer and The Epidendra Website

Common Name or Meaning Arias' Lepanthes [Ecuadorian local Collector and founder of Llanganetes foundation late 1900's early 2000's]

Flower Size .08" [2mm]

Found in Tungurahua Ecuador at elevations around 1800 to 1900 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with a long-repent, scandent, branched rhizome carrying ramicauls enveloped by 2, long-ciliate, imbricating, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, obtuse to rounded apically, glabrous, contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on an ascending, .02" [.5mm] long, 1 followed by a second flowered inflorescence with infundibular floral bract

Synonyms Brachycladium ariasianum (Luer & L.Jost) Luer 2005; Oreophilus ariasianus (Luer & L.Jost) Archila 2009; Penducella ariasiana (Luer & L.Jost) Luer 2010

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVII Luer 1998 drawing fide; Flora of Ecuador No 88 Lepanthes and affiliates Dodson & Luer 2011 as Penducella ariasiana drawing fide

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