Lepanthopsis obliquipetala (Ames & C.Schweinf.) Luer 1991 SUBGENUS Microlepanthes
Photo by © Karremans and The Lankester's Epidendra Website CR
Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana Bogota Colombia
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer ©
Common Name The Oblique Petaled Lepanthopsis
Flower Size .1" [2 mm]
Found in El Salvador, Costa Rica, Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador at elevations of 1100 to 3000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with erect slender ramicauls enveloped by 4 to 6 close fitting, minutely scabrous lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly ellioptical, acute, cuneate basally into the petiolate base leaf that blooms on a subcongested, 2 ranked, to 3.2" [8 cm] long, simultaneously several to many flowered, racemose inflorescence arising from near the apex of the ramicaul.
"Several to many of the tiny, tubular flowers are borne simultaneously in a two-ranked raceme. The sepals are deeply connate into a bottle-shaped sepaline tube, but the morphology of the round cncave lip and colum with an apical anther and stigma is nearly the same as that of L microlepanthes." Luer 1991
Synonyms *Physosiphon obliquipetalus Ames & C.Schweinf. 1925; Pleurothallis connata Luer 1981; Stelis obliquipetala (Ames & C.Schweinf.) L.O.Williams 1956; Trichosalpinx obliquipetala (Ames & C.Schweinf.) Luer 1983
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Ceiba Vol 5 LO Wms. 1956 as Stelis obliquipetala; Las Orquedias De El Salvador Vol 2 Hamer 1974 as Physosiphon obliquipetalus drawing/photo fide; Orquideologia Vol 12 No 1 1977 as Physosiphon obliquipetalus photo fide; Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 as Physosiphon obliquipetalus drawing ok; Icones Pleurothallidinarum VIII Systematics of Lepanthopsis, Octomeria subgenus Pleurothallopsis, Restrepiella, Salpistele and Teagueia Luer 1991 drawing/photo fide; Orquideologia Vol 18 #3 O Duque 1993 as Physosi[phon obliquipetalus drawing/photo fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 drawing/photo fide; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 drawing ok; Flora of Ecuador No 88 Lepanthes and affiliates Dodson & Luer 2011 drawing fide; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 3 Ortiz & Uribe 2019 photo fide; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 photo fide
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