Lepanthes triangularis Luer 1994 GENUS Lepanthes SUBGENUS Brachycladium SECTION Amplectentes Luer 1994

TYPE Drawing by Luer

Common Name or Meaning The Triangular Lepanthes

Flower Size .15" [4 mm]

Found in Magadalena department of Colombia at elevations around 2300 meters as a medium sized, cold growing epiphyte with pendent rhizomes giving rise to abbreviated ramicauls concealed by a long-ciliate lepanthiform sheath and carrying a single, apical, pendent, coriaceous, glabrous, broadly elliptical, obtuse to rounded apically, 3 veined, contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on a slender, congested, racemose, .04 to .08" [1 to 2 mm] long, successively 3 to 8 flowered inflorescence with an spiculate floral bract.

"Vegetatively it is indistinguishable from any of the other medium-sized, pendent members of the subgenus with glabrous leaves. The inflorescences are produced copiously, each ramicaul bearing a congested raceme of up to eight tiny, dark red flowers. The sepals are triangular, acute, equally diverging, and with well-defined, thickened margins. The petals are glabrous and transversely bilibed, The lip more or less cordate with a rounded apex and basal lobes that flank the column." Luer 1994

Synonyms Andinia triangularis (Luer) Karremans & S.V.Uribe 2017; Brachycladium triangulare (Luer) Luer 2005; Neooreophilus triangularis (Luer) Archila 2009; Oreophilus triangularis (Luer) Archila 2009; Penducella triangularis (Luer) Luer 2010

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XI Luer 1994 Drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Dryadella and Acronia section Macrophyllae-Fasiculatae Luer 2005 as Brachycladium triangularis; Selbyana 29(2): 202-8. Archila 2009 as Oreophilus triangularis; Orchid Digest 74(2): 69. Luer 2010 as Penducella triangularis

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