Lepanthes erepsis Luer & Hirtz 1986 SUBGENUS Brachycladium SECTION Amplectentes
Photo by © Alexander Hirtz
Another Flower, petals way bigger and concave?
Photos by © Milan Vagner
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
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Common Name or MeaningThe Roof Lepanthes [alluding to the broad, concave dorsal sepal]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in southern Ecuador in cloud forests on the eastern slopes at elevations of 2000 to 2450 meters as a small to medium sized cold growing epiphyte with pendant, ocasionally branching, to 12" [30 cm] long chain of slender ramicauls enveloped by a close, lepanthiform sheath and carrying a single, apical, pendant, coriaceous, long-pubescent, elliptical, subacute to obtuse, the rounded base cuneate into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring and fall on an ascending .4" [1 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence
CAUTION The photos by Milan Wagner show a similar species but it differs in the elongate, concave, hirsute margin petals, and the widely open lip, as of yet I do not know what species it may represent.
Synonyms Andinia erepsis (Luer & Hirtz) Karremans & S.V.Uribe 2017; Brachycladium erepse (Luer & Hirtz) Luer 2005; Neooreophilus erepsis (Luer & Hirtz) Archila 2009; Oreophilus erepsis (Luer & Hirtz) Archila 2009; Penducella erepsis (Luer & Hirtz) Luer 2010
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol X Luer 1994 drawing fide to the first photo; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 2001 drawing/photo fide to the first photo; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol Vol XXVII Luer 2005 as Brachycladium erepsis; AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 5 2006 photo fide; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 74 #2 2010 as Penducella erepsis photo fide; Flora of Ecuador No 88 Lepanthes and affiliates Dodson & Luer 2011 as Penducella erepsis drawing fide to the first photo; Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Andinia erepsis photo fide
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