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

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Common Name or Meaning The Ciliate Lepanthes

Flower Size .2" [5mm]

Found in northeastern Ecuador on the eastern slopes of the ANdes at elevations around 1550 to 2000 meters as a mini-miniature to small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with a pendant, slender rhizome giving rise to slender ramicauls enveloped by 2, infundibular, long-ciliate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, pendant, thickly coriaceous, long-ciliate, glabrous, elliptical, subacute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring through summer on a, .32" [ 8 mm] long, racemose, 2 to 4, white flowered inflorescence arising on top of the leaf.

Synonyms Brachycladium ciliare (Luer & Hirtz) Luer 2005; Oreophilus ciliaris (Luer & Hirtz) Archila 2009; Penducella ciliaris (Luer & Hirtz) Luer 2010

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard.52: 8, f. 2. 1994 Luer drawing fide; Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard.103: 307. 2005 Luer as Brachycladium ciliare; Selbyana 29(2): 203. 2009 Archila as Oreophilus ciliaris Orchid Digest 74(2): 69. 2010 as Penducella ciliaris; Flora of Ecuador No 88 Lepanthes and affiliates Dodson & Luer 2011 as Penducella ciliaris drawing fide

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