Lepanthes chilopsis Luer & Hirtz 2002 GENUS Lepanthes SUBGENUS Brachycladium SECTION Amplectentes Luer 1994 Drawing by Luer and The Epidendra Website

LATE EARLY

Common Name or Meaning The Lip Like Lepanthes

Flower Size .2" [5mm]

Found in Morona-Santiago Ecuador at elevations around 1600 meters as a mini-miniature to small sized, cool growing epiphyte with a pendant, branching rhizome giving rise to ramicauls enveloped by a long-ciliate lepanthiform sheath and carrying a single, apical, pendant, thickly coriaceous, log-ciliate, elliptical, subacute leaf and contracted below into the ramicaul that blooms in the late winter and early spring on a, .6" [ 1.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising from near the apex of the ramicaul with a long-spiculate floral bract

Synonyms Brachycladium chilopse (Luer & Hirtz) Luer 2005; Oreophilus chilopsis (Luer & Hirtz) Archila 2009; Penducella chilopsis (Luer & Hirtz) Luer 2010

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Selbyana 30(1): 16. 2009 Luer drawing fide; Orchid Digest 74(2): 69. 2010 Luer; Flora of Ecuador No 88 Lepanthes and affiliates Dodson & Luer 2011 as Penducella chilosisdrawing fide

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