Lepanthes composita Luer & R.Escobar 1994 GENUS Lepanthes SUBGENUS Brachycladium SECTION Amplectentes Luer 1994
Photo by Sebastian Vieira and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
TYPE Drawing by Luer
Common Name or Meaning The Different Parts Lepanthes [refers to the similarity of certain floral parts to those of other species]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Risaralda department of Colombia in remnant forests at elevations around 2000 meters as a mini-miniature to small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with a pendant, slender, branching rhizome giving rise to slender ramicauls enveloped by a single, long-ciliate, lepanthiform sheath and carrying a single, apical, pendant, lentiform, coriaceous, long-pubescent, broadly elliptical, obtuse, 3 veined, contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on a, racemose, .04" [1 mm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising from near the apex of hte ramicaul with a long ciliate floral bract.
"Features of this species are reminiscent of several of the other species of the subgenus. In habit, it is similar to most of them with average-sized, pubescent leaves. The sepals are glabrous. The erect, obovate, only slightly concave dorsal sepal is similar to that of L. platysepala. The spreading lateral sepals are similar to those of L. micropetala. The ciliate petals are similar to those of L. catella. The lip is similar to that of L. lupula or L. micropetala but with a decurved apical lobe." Luer 1994
Synonyms Andinia composita (Luer & R.Escobar) Karremans & S.V.Uribe 2017; Brachycladium compositum (Luer & R.Escobar) Luer 2005; Oreophilus compositus (Luer & R.Escobar) Archila 2009; Penducella composita (Luer & R.Escobar) Luer 2010
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Icones Pleurothallidinarum XI Systematics of Lepanthes Subgenus Brachycladium and Pleurothallis subgenus Aenigma, Elongatia and Kraenzlingella Luer 1994 drawing fide; Orquideologia Vol 19 #2 1994 drawing/photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Dryadella and Acronia section Macrophyllae-Fasiculatae Luer 2005 as Brachycladium compositum; Selbyana 29(2): 203. Archila 2009 as Oreophilus composita; Orchid Digest 74(2): 69. Luer 2010 as Penducella composita; Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Andinia composita photo fide
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