Andinia pensilis (Schltr.) Luer 2000
Photo by © Alexander Hirtz
Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website
Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name or Meaning The Hanging Andinia
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Chimborazo and Imbabura provinces of Ecuador in montane forests at elevations of 3000 to 3400 meters as a medium sized, cold growing, caespitose epiphtye with a filiform, flexuous, glabrous ramicaul carrying a single apical, erect, lanceolate-ligulate, obtuse, narrowly subpetiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall through spring on a single, ascending, laxly 4 to 7 flowered inflorescence with cucullate-ovate, shortly acuminate, longer than the pedicel floral bracts.
"Recognized by the long-pendent habit with only the racemes ascending. The color of the flowers varies from yellow to red. The sepals are carinate, concave, apiculate and minutely ciliate and the petals are vestigal, all very similar to A dielsii. The auriculate lateral lobes of the lip also embrace the footless column. The apex however is simply obtuse. Above is a 2 pointed callus, one point above the other. This callus varies in size as sometimes the upper point is barely present of even absent." Luer 1991
Synonyms Lepanthes lanceipetala L.O.Williams 1940; *Lepanthes pensilis Schltr.1921; Oreophilus pensilis (Schltr.) Archila 2009; Salpistele pensilis (Schltr.) Luer 1986
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten III Ecuador Schlechter 1921 as Lepanthes pensilis; Bot. Mus. Leafl. 9: 3-4 L O Williams 1940 as Lepanthes lancipetala; Icones Pleurothallidinarum VIII Systematics of Lepanthospsis, Octomeria subgenus Pleurothallopsis, Restrepiella, Salpistele and Teagueia Luer 1991 as Salpistele pensilis drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XX Systematics of Jostia, Andinia, Barbosella, Barbrodia & Pleurothallis subgen Antilla, Effusia and Restrepioidia Luer 2000 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004 drawing/photo fide; Flora Of Ecuador # 76 225[2] Dodson & Luer 2005 as Andinia pensilis; Selbyana 29(2): 202 Archila 2008 as Oreophilus pensilis; Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Andinia pensilis photo fide
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
