Lepanthes pseudocaulescens L.B.Sm. & S.K.Harris 1934 GENUS Lepanthes SUBGENUS Brachycladium SECTION Amplectentes Luer 1994
Photos by © Sebastian Vieira and his Flickr Orchid Photo Webpage
TYPE Drawing by L O Wiliams
LATER 
Common Name or Meaning The False Becoming Stemlike? Lepanthes
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in southern Colombia and northern Ecuador at elevations around 1400 to 2000 meters as a miniature sized cool growing epiphyte with pendant, long repent to pendent rhizomes giving rise to abbreviated ramicauls concealed by a ciliate lepanthiform sheath and carrying a single, apical, prostrate, coriaceous, glabrous, broadly elliptical, obtuse to rounded apically, contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later spring on a fascile of successive flowered inflorescence arising from near the apex of the ramicaul and with an apiculate floral bract.
"It is similar vegetatively to many of the other species of the subgenus, but it is distinguished by the ovate, acute sepals; transversely bilobed petals with the a lobes long-ciliate and narrowly triangular; and a cordate lip with acute basal lobes and sides engulf the column. The illustration published with the original description is misleading with the lip drawn expanded." Luer 1994
Synonyms Andinia pseudocaulescens (L.B.Sm. & S.K.Harris) Karremans & S.V.Uribe 2017; Brachycladium pseudocaulescens (L.B.Sm. & S.K.Harris) Luer 2005; Neooreophilus pseudocaulescens (L.B.Sm. & S.K.Harris) Archila 2009; Oreophilus pseudocaulescens (L.B.Sm. & S.K.Harris) Archila 2009; Penducella pseudocaulescens (L.B.Sm. & S.K.Harris) Luer 2010
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Bot. Mus. Leafl. Harvard Univ. 2(3): 33. S K Harris 1934 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XI Luer 1994 Drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Dryadella and Acronia section Macrophyllae-Fasiculatae Luer 2005 as Brachycladium pseduocaulescens; Selbyana 29(2): 202-8. Archila 2009 as Oreophilus pseudocaulescens; Orchid Digest 74(2): 69. Luer 2010 as Penducella pseudocaulescens; Flora of Ecuador No 88 Lepanthes and affiliates Dodson & Luer 2011 as Penducella pseudocaulescens drawing fide; Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Andinia pseudocaulescens photo fide; Orquideas de Farallones de Cali Galindo-Tarazona, Haelterman, Zuluaga Trochez and Sebastian Moreno 2020 as Andinia pseudocaulescens photo fide
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