Lepanthes montis-rotundi P.Ortiz 1997SUBGENUS Brachycladium
Photo by Sebastian Viera Uribe ©
TYPE Photo/drawing by Padre Pedro Ortiz ©
Common Name
Flower Size 1/10" [3mm]
Found in Cundinamarca department of Colombia at elevations of 2200 to 2900 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with pendant, repent rhizomes giving rise to abbreviated ramicauls concealed by a long-spiculate lepanthiform sheath and carrying a single, apical, descending, fleshy, elliptical, acute apically, 3 veined, corrugate, villous leaf that blooms in the spring on an erect, slender, .04" [1 mm] long, single flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms Andinia montis-rotundi (P.Ortiz) Karremans & S.V.Uribe 2017; Neooreophilus montis-rotundi (P.Ortiz) Archila 2009; Oreophilus montis-rotundi (P.Ortiz) Luer 2009; Penducella montis-rotundi (P.Ortiz) Luer 2010
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Orquideología Vol 20 #3 pg 318. 1997 Ortiz Drawing/photo fide; Selbyana 29(2): 202-8. 2009 Archila as Oreophila montis-rotundi; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXX Lepanthes of Jamaica Systematics of Stelis of Ecuador 4 Luer 2009 as Oreophilus monti-rotundi; Orchid Digest 74(2): 69. 2010. Luer as Penducella montis-rotundi
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