Lepanthes geminipetala Luer & J.J. Portilla 2002 SUBGENUS Brachycladium SECTION Amplectentes
Photo by Sebastian Viera-Uribe and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
Photo by Lisa Thoerle
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name The Twined Petal Lepanthes
Flower Size .1" [3mm]
Found in Azuay province of Ecuador as a mini-miniature sized, pendent growing epiphyte with shortramicauls enveloped by 2, long-ciliate, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, pendant, thickly coriceous, long-ciliate, elliptical, obtuse, basally contracted into a petiolate leaf that blooms in the spring on an ascending, arising from near the apex of the ramicaul, .1" [2 mm] long, successively single flowered inflorescence with a long, spiculate, shorter to as long as the pedicel floral bract.
Reminscent of L pilosella but differs in the thick, elliptical, long pubescent leaf with finely long pubescent sheaths and blooms on a successively single, flowered inflorescence with a flower with a concave dorsal sepal and a subquadrate, widely bifid synsepal and each petal is divided into two parts and stands erect behind the lip and column. The lip is broadly bilobed with the lobes surrounding the column.
Synonyms Andinia geminipetala (Luer & J.Portilla) Karremans & S.V.Uribe 2017; Brachycladium geminipetalum (Luer & J.Portilla) Luer 2005; Neooreophilus geminipetalus (Luer & J.Portilla) Archila 2009; Oreophilus geminipetalus (Luer & J.Portilla) Archila 2009; Penducella geminipetala (Luer & J.Portilla) Luer 2010
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXIV A First Century Of New Species of Stelis of Ecuador Part One Luer 2002 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Dryadella and Acronia section Macrophyllae-Fasiculatae Luer 2005 as Brachycladium geminipetalum; Orquideologia Vol 26 #2 Archila 2009 as Oreophilus geminipetalus photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 74 #2 Luer 2010 as Penducella geminipetala photo fide; Flora of Ecuador No 88 Lepanthes and affiliates Dodson & Luer 2011 as Penducella geminipetala drawing fide; Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Andinia geminipetala photo fide
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Checked type W3Tropicos OK
