Lepanthes viebrockiana Luer & L.Jost 1998 GENUS Lepanthes SUBGENUS Brachycladium SECTION Amplectentes Luer 1994
Photo by © Andreas Kaye
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name Viebrock's Lepanthes [Betty Viebrock, mother of John Moore, American Ornithologist 1900's]
Flower Size .1" [3mm]
Found in Tungurahua province of Ecuador at elevations around 1750 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing, repent epiphyte with a slender, repent rhizome with 3.2" [8 cm]+ long branches, with short ramicauls enveloped by a single, lepanthiform sheath and carrying a single, coriaceous, ciliate-denticulate, elliptical, obtuse to rounded, 3 veined, abruptly narrowing and cuneate into the short, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on an ascending, arising from near the apex of the ramicaul, .15" to .25" [4 to 6 mm] long, successively single, 2 flowered inflorescence with a ciliate, less than half as long as the pedicel floral bract.
"The dorsal sepal is erect, broadly obovate and shallowly concave, the lateral sepals are long ciliate and connate to about the middle, the petals are three lobed witht the lobes short and rounded on the ends and the lateral lobes of the lip closely surround the shaft of the column." Luer 1998
Synonyms Andinia viebrockiana (Luer & L.Jost) Karremans & S.V.Uribe 2017; Brachycladium viebrockianum (Luer & L.Jost) Luer 2005; Neooreophilus viebrockianus (Luer & L.Jost) Archila 2009; Oreophilus viebrockianus (Luer & L.Jost) Archila 2009; Penducella viebrockiana (Luer & L.Jost) Luer 2010
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVII Systematics of Pleurothallis Section Abortivae, Truncatae, Subsection Acroniae, Subgenera Dracontia and Uncifera Luer 1998 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Dryadella and Acronia section Macrophyllae-Fasiculatae Luer 2005 as Brachycladium viebrockianum; Selbyana 29(2): 203. 2009 Archila as Oreophilus viebrockiana; Orchid Digest 74(2): 69. 2010 Luer as Penducella viebrockiana; Flora of Ecuador No 88 Lepanthes and affiliates Dodson & Luer 2011 as Penducella hippocrepica drawing fide; Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Andinia viebrockianas photo fide
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