Lepanthes dactyla Garay 1971 SUBGENUS Brachycladium SECTION Amplectentes Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana Bogota Colombia

Type sheet drawing and photo Original Drawing and Type Sheet © Courtesy of The Epidendra Website

Common Name The Finger Lepanthes [refers to the petals shape]

Flower Size 1/10" [3mm]

Found in Antioquia, Boyaca and Norte de Santander Colombia in scrub cloud forests at elevations around 2150 to 2600 meters as a mini-miniature szied, cool to cold growing epiphyte with a pendant, long-repent chain of abbreviated ramicauls enveloped by a long ciliate, lepanthiform sheath and carrying a single, apical, descending, coriaceous, ciliate, sparsely pubescent, broadly elliptical, obtuse, 3 to 5 veined, cuneate into the petiolate base leaf that blooms on a slender, upcurved, 1/10" [2mm] long, single flowered inflorescence with an apiculate floral bract.

Synonyms Brachycladium dactylum (Garay) Luer 2005; Oreophilus dactylus (Garay) Archila 2009; Penducella dactyla (Garay) Luer 2010

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XI Luer 1994; Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Luer 2005 as Brachycladium dactylum

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