Lepanthes villosa Løjtnant 1977 GENUS Lepanthes SUBGENUS Brachycladium SECTION Amplectentes Luer 1994
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Common Name The Shaggy Lepanthes [refers to the petals]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in northern Ecuador at elevations of 2000 to 2400 meters as a miniature sized, pendant, cold growing epiphyte with an occasionally branching stem giving rise to a ramicaul with a single basal sheath and carrying a single, apical, pendant, coriaceous, long-pubescent, elliptical, subacute leaf that blooms in the spring on a single flowered .04" [1 mm] long, inflorescence with a ciliate floral bract.
"Vegetatively it is inseparable from L. pilosella with 7 veins present in the large, suborbicular dorsal sepal. Most distinctive is the larger, longer, villous petals. The lip is transversely oblong with the sides encircling the column as in L. pilosella." Luer 1994
Synonyms Andinia villosa (Løjtnant) Karremans & S.V.Uribe 2017; Brachycladium villosum (Løjtnant) Luer 2005; Neooreophilus villosus (Løjtnant) Archila 2009; Oreophilus villosus (Løjtnant) Archila 2009; Penducella villosa (Løjtnant) Luer 2010;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XI Luer 1994 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Dryadella and Acronia section Macrophyllae-Fasiculatae Luer 2005 as Brachycladium villosum; Selbyana 29(2): 203. 2009 Archila as Oreophilus villosa; Orchid Digest 74(2): 69. 2010 Luer as Penducella villosa; Flora of Ecuador No 88 Lepanthes and affiliates Dodson & Luer 2011 as Penducella villosa drawing fide
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