Lepanthes cordilabia Luer 2002 SUBGENUS Brachycladium
Photo by © Kazutoshi Moriya and the Peacewood Orchid Website
Photo by © Lourens Grobler
Common Name The Heart Shaped Lip Lepanthes
Flower Size
Found in Ecuador at elevations around 2200 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold, pendant growing epiphyte with ramicauls enveloped by a single, ciliate sheath and carrying a single, pendant, distichous, thickly coriaceous, glabrous, broadly ovate, obtuse, abruptly contracted into a petiolate bsae leaf that blooms in the spring on a .2" [6 mm] long, successively 2 to 3 flowered, racemose inflorescence with long ciliate floral bracts.
Synonyms Brachycladium cordilabium (Luer) Luer 2005; Oreophilus cordilabius (Luer) Archila 2009; Penducella cordilabia (Luer) Luer 2010
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIV Luer drawing fide; Flora of Ecuador No 88 Lepanthes and affiliates Dodson & Luer 2011 as Penducella cordilabia Flora of Ecuador No 88 Lepanthes and affiliates Dodson & Luer 2011 drawing fide drawing fide
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