Lepanthes pendula Luer & L.Jost 2000 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes

TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

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Common Name The Pendent Lepanthes [refers to the pendent growing plant]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Cotopaxi province of Ecuador at elevations around 2200 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing caespitose epiphyte with a slender, more or less pendent ramicaul enveloped by 12 to 14, minutely ciliate lepanthiform sheaths carrying a single, apical, pendent, coriaceous, elliptical, acute to acuminate, cuneate and contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later summer on a slender, arising on the back of the leaf, densely distichous, to 1 to 1.2" [2.5 to 3 cm] long, successively several flowered inflorescence with shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.

"Characterized by a pendent, elliptical, acuminate leaf and a shorter, pendent, congested inflorescence. Two flowers are often produced simultaneously. The broad sepals are connate into a concave, suborbicular flower. The small transverse petals are long-villous, and the blades of the lip are finely long ciliate. The body is thick and broad with a broad, protruding sinus in place of an appendix.'Luer 2000

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XX Systematics of Jostia, Andinia, Barbosella, Barbrodia & Pleurothallis subgen Antilla, Effusia and Restrepioidia Luer 2000 drawing fide; Flora of Ecuador No 88 Lepanthes and affiliates Dodson & Luer 2011 drawing fide

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