Lepanthes hippocrepica Luer & R.Escobar 1991 NO PHOTO - SECTION Brachycladium SECTION Amplectentes

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Common Name The Horseshoe Bearing Lepanthes

Flower Size .2" [5mm]

Found in Colombia and Ecuador at elevations of 1800 to 2400 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphytependent occaisionally brnaching, slender rhizome giving rise to a ramicaul enveloped by a single long ciliate, dilated ostia sheath and carrying asingle, apical, coriaceous, sparsely ciliate, elliptic to orbicular, obtuse to rounded apically, 3 veined, rounded and abruptly contracted below in to the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter and spring on an ascending, .04 to .08" [1 to 2 mm] long, single flowereed inflorescence with a spiculate floral bract

CAUTION There are many photos of this species out there on the net but they all are missing the pilose petals so I do not have one here as all references say they have obvious oblong, pilose petals

Synonyms Brachycladium hippocrepicum (Luer & R.Escobar) Luer 2005; Oreophilus hippocrepicus (Luer & R.Escobar) Archila 2009; Penducella hippocrepica (Luer & R.Escobar) Luer 2010

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list ,IPNI ; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Dodson Vol 2 1995; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Luer 2005 as Brachycladium hippocrepcium; Flora of Ecuador No 88 Lepanthes and affiliates Dodson & Luer 2011 as Penducella hippocrepica drawing fide

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