Lepanthes destituta Luer & R.Escobar 1988 GENUS Lepanthes SUBGENUS Brachycladium SECTION Amplectentes Luer 1994 Drawing by Luer and The Epidendra Website

Common Name or Meaning The Poor Lepanthes [refers to the visual illusion that there are no petals and lip]

Flower Size .12" [3mm]

Found in Norte de Santander Colombia in cloud forests at elevations around 2150 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with a pendant rhizome giving rise to erect ramicaul enveloped by a single, long-ciliate lepanthiform sheath and carrying a single, pendant, coriaceous, glabrous, widely ovate, 3 veined, obtuse and rounded below into the base leaf that blooms in the spring on a .2 to .4" [.5 to 1 cm] long, racemose, successively single, 2 to 5 flowered inflorescence arising from near the apex of the ramicaul

Synonyms Brachycladium destitutum (Luer & R.Escobar) Luer 2005; Oreophilus destitutus (Luer & R.Escobar) Archila 2009; Penducella destituta (Luer & R.Escobar) Luer 2010

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orquideología 17(3):179-182. 1988 Luer Drawing fide; Selbyana 29(2): 203. 2009 Archila as Oreophilus destitutus; Orchid Digest 74(2): 69. 2010 Luer as Penducella destituta

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