Lepanthes montis-rotundi P.Ortiz 1997SUBGENUS Brachycladium Drawing by © Luer and Epidendra Website
Common Name
Flower Size 1/10" [3mm]
Found in Cundinamarca Colombia at elevations of 2200 to 2900 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with pendant, repent rhizomes giving rise to abbreviated ramicauls concealed by a long-spiculate lepanthiform sheath and carrying a single, apical, descending, fleshy, elliptical, acute apically, 3 veined, corrugate, villous leaf that blooms in the spring on an erect, slender, .04" [1 mm] long, single flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms Oreophilus montis-rotundi (P.Ortiz) Luer 2009; Penducella montis-rotundi (P.Ortiz) Luer 2010
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Orquideología 20(3): 318. 1997 Ortiz Drawaing fide; Selbyana 29(2): 202-8. 2009 Archila as Oreophila montis-rotundi; Orchid Digest 74(2): 69. 2010. Luer as Penducella montis-rotundi
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