Lepanthes persimilis Luer & Sijm 2002 GENUS Lepanthes SUBGENUS Brachycladium SECTION Amplectentes Luer 1994
Photos by © Peter Bryder
Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website
Common Name or Meaning The Very Similar Lepanthes
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Ecuador without locality as a miniature to small sized epiphyte with a pendant chain of coriaceous, densely pilose, elliptic, obtuse, 5 veined, contracted below into the base leaves that blooms in the summer on a .6 to 1" [1.5 to 2.5 cm] long, , ascending, successively single flowered inflorescence arising laterally from the ramicaul and has a ciliate floral bract
Similar to L pilosela but differs in the minute petals, the considerably larger, ovate lip with incurved sides that surround the column and the lip is longer than broad.
Synonyms Andinia persimilis (Luer & Sijm) Karremans & S.V.Uribe 2017; Brachycladium persimile (Luer & Sijm) Luer 2005; Neooreophilus persimilis (Luer & Sijm) Archila 2009; Oreophilus persimilis (Luer & Sijm) Archila 2009; Penducella persimilis (Luer & Sijm) Luer 2010
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidianrum Vol XXIV Luer 2002; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Luer 2005 as Brachycladium persimilis; Selbyana 29(2): 202-8. 2009 Archila as Oreophila persimilis Orchid Digest 74(2): 69. 2010 Luer as Penducella persimilis; Flora of Ecuador No 88 Lepanthes and affiliates Dodson & Luer 2011 as Penducella persimilis drawing fide; Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Andinia persimilis photo fide; Orquideas de Farallones de Cali Galindo-Tarazona, Haelterman, Zuluaga Trochez and Sebastian Moreno 2020 as Andinia aff persimilis photo ok much longer petals
Checked type drawing W3Tropicis OK
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
