Lepanthes lynniana Luer 2002 GENUS Lepanthes SUBGENUS Brachycladium SECTION Amplectentes Luer 1994

TYPE Drawing by Luer

Common Name or Meaning Lynn's Lepanthes [Ms O'Shaughnessy American Orchid Enthusiast current]

Flower Size .24" [6 mm]

Found in Ecuador without collection data as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with pendent rhizomes giving rise to ramicauls concealed by a infundibular, long-ciliate lepanthiform sheath and carrying a single, apical, pendent, distichous, thickly coriaceous, glabrous, ovate, obtuse, rounded and contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on an ascending, .15 to .24" [4 to 6 mm] long, single to distant successively 2 flowered inflorescence with much shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.

"Distinguished by the small habit with ovate, glabrous leaves and a short, ascending, successively two flowered racemes. Except for being twice larger the flowers are very similar to L ciliaris but its sepals are broader with the dorsal broader than long and the lateral sepals are free and diverging. In the new species the sepals are proportionally narrower and reflexed and the laterals are semiconnate. The petals of both species are small, those of L ciliaris being twice as long and lunate in shape. The lips of both specis are horse-shoe shaped." Luer 1002

Synonyms Andinia lynniana (Luer) Karremans & S.V.Uribe 2017; Brachycladium lynnianum (Luer) Luer 2005; Neooreophilus lynnianus (Luer) Archila 2009; Oreophilus lynnianus (Luer) Archila 2009; Penducella lynniana (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 lynnianum; Selbyana 29(2): 203 Archila 2009 as Oreophilus lynniana; Orchid Digest 74(2): 69. Luer 2010 as Penducella lynniana; Flora of Ecuador No 88 Lepanthes and affiliates Dodson & Luer 2011 as Penducella lynniana drawing fide

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