Lepanthes ciliaris Luer & Hirtz 1994 GENUS Lepanthes SUBGENUS Brachycladium SECTION Amplectentes Luer 1994
Photo by © Alexander Hirtz
Photo by © Mary
TYPE Drawing by Luer
THROUGH
Common Name or Meaning The Ciliate Lepanthes
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in northeastern Ecuador on the eastern slopes of the Andes at elevations around 1550 to 2000 meters as a mini-miniature to small sized, cool growing epiphyte with a pendant, slender rhizome giving rise to slender ramicauls enveloped by 2, infundibular, long-ciliate, lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, pendant, thickly coriaceous, long-ciliate, glabrous, elliptical, subacute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring through summer on a, racemose, .32" [ 8 mm] long, successively single, 2 to 4 flowered inflorescence arising on top of the leaf.
"Lepanthes ciliaris is distinguished by the small habit with glabrous leaves; short ascending, successively-flowered racemes of small, white flowers with long-ciliate and pubescent floral parts: broadly ovate sepals; very small, lunate petals; and a cordate lip with the sides embracing the column." Luer 1994
Synonyms Andinia ciliaris (Luer & Hirtz) Karremans & S.V.Uribe 2017; Brachycladium ciliare (Luer & Hirtz) Luer 2005; Neooreophilus ciliaris (Luer & Hirtz) Archila 2009; Oreophilus ciliaris (Luer & Hirtz) Archila 2009; Penducella ciliaris (Luer & Hirtz) Luer 2010
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Dryadella and Acronia section Macrophyllae-Fasiculatae Luer 2005 as Brachycladium ciliare;
Selbyana 29(2): 203 Archila 2009 as Oreophilus ciliaris
Orchid Digest 74(2): 69 Luer 2010 as Penducella ciliaris;
Flora of Ecuador No 88 Lepanthes and affiliates Dodson & Luer 2011 as Penducella ciliaris drawing fide;
Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Andinia ciliaris photo fide;
LANKESTERIANA 23(2). Karremans, Moreno, Gil-Amaya, Morales, Espinosa, Mesa, Restrepo, Rincon-Gonzales, Serna, Sierra-Ariza and Vieira-Uribe 2023 as Andinia ciliaris photo fide;
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