Lepanthes cordilabia Luer 2002 GENUS Lepanthes SUBGENUS Brachycladium SECTION Amplectentes Luer 1994
Photo by © Kazutoshi Moriya and the Peacewood Orchid Website
Photo by © Lourens Grobler
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name The Heart Shaped Lip Lepanthes
Flower Size
Found in Zamora-Chinchipe province of Ecuador at elevations around 2200 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold, pendant growing epiphyte with ramicauls enveloped by a single, ciliate sheath and carrying a single, pendant, distichous, thickly coriaceous, glabrous, broadly ovate, obtuse, abruptly contracted into a petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a .2" [6 mm] long, successively 2 to 3 flowered, racemose inflorescence with long ciliate, shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.
"Closely allied to L ciliaris but distinguished by the twice larger flowers with spreading, recurved, purple striped sepals instead of white. Te dorsal sepal is long-pubescent, ovate and narrowed towards the base. The lateral sepals are only microscopically pubescent and the transverse petals are shortly pubescent. The lip is glabrous and cordate with the sides embbracing the column." Luer 2002
Synonyms Andinia cordilabia (Luer) Karremans & S.V.Uribe 2017; Brachycladium cordilabium (Luer) Luer 2005; Neooreophilus cordilabius (Luer) Archila 2009; Oreophilus cordilabius (Luer) Archila 2009; Penducella cordilabia (Luer) Luer 2010
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIV A First Century of New Species of Stelis of Ecuador Part 1 Luer 2002 Drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Dryadella and Acronia section Macrophyllae-Fasiculatae Luer 2005 as Brachycladium cordilabium; Selbyana 29(2): 203 Archila 2009 as Oreophilus cordilabia; Orchid Digest Vol 74 #2 2010 as Penducella cordilabia; Flora of Ecuador No 88 Lepanthes and affiliates Dodson & Luer 2011 as Penducella cordilabia Flora of Ecuador No 88 Lepanthes and affiliates Dodson & Luer 2011 drawing fide drawing fide; Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Andinia cordilabia photo fide
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