Andinia dielsii (Mansf.) Luer 2000
Photos by © I. Olmedo and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Photo by Masdevallia workgroup © and The Dutch Pleurothallid Alliance Website
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name or Meaning Diels' Andinia [German Orchid Collector Ecuador 1900's]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Chmborazo and Bolivar provinces of Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations of 2400 to 3400 meters as a small sized, cold growing, repent epiphyte with well spaced ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coricaeous, elliptical, acute to subacute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a suberect, 2.8" [7 cm] long, loose, successively several flowered inflorescence arising from high on the ramicaul and has an oblique acute floral bract.
"Recognized by the ascending, repent habit with a short, successively flowered raceme. The color of the flowers varies through all shades and combinations of yellow, orange, red, brown and purple. The sepals are carinate, concave, apiculate and minutely ciliate. The petals are vestigal. The auriculate lateral lobes of the lip embrace the footless column and the apex is contracted into a small, concave lobule. Above and beow the column is a small, protruding, triangular callus that is variously developed." Luer 1991
Synonyms *Lepanthes dielsii Mansf. 1937; Lepanthes echinocarpa L.O.Williams 1940; Oreophilus dielsii (Mansf.) Archila 2009; Salpistele dielsii (Mansf.) Luer 1986
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Biblioth. Bot. 29(116): 72 Mansf. 1937 as Lepanthes dielsii; Bot. Mus. Leafl. 9(1): 1-2 L O Williams 1940 as Lepanthes echinocarpa; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Systematics of the Pleurothallidinae Vol 1 1986 as Salpistele dielsii drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum VIII Systematics of Lepanthospsis, Octomeria subgenus Pleurothallopsis, Restrepiella, Salpistele and Teagueia Luer 1991 as Salpistele dielsii drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XX Systematics of Jostia, Andinia, Barbosella, Barbrodia & Pleurothallis subgen Antilla, Effusia and Restrepioidia Luer 2000 drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 42 - 43 pg 2626 - 2762 Brieger 2001 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004 drawing/photo fide; Flora Of Ecuador # 76 225[2] Dodson & Luer 2005 drawing fide; Selbyana 29(2): 202 Archila 2008[2009] as Oreophilus dielsii; Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 photo fide
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