Oreophilus chelosepalus Luer & Hirtz 2009GENUS Lepanthes SUBGENUS Brachycladium SECTION Amplectentes Luer 1994 Drawing by Luer and The Epidendra Website

Common Name or Meaning The Clawed Sepals Oreophilus

Flower Size .2" [5mm]

Found in Pichincha Ecuador at elevations around 1500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with a repent, branching rhizome giving rise to suberect ramicauls enveloped by 1 to 2, thin, long-ciliate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, prone, coriaceous, circular, rounded below leaf and contracted abruptly into the ramicaul that blooms in the winter on an erect, [5 to 6 mm] long, congested, successively 2 to 3 flowered inflorescence

This species belongs in Lepanthes but as yet has not been described as such so I have it here

Synonyms Penducella chelosepala (Luer & Hirtz) Luer 2010

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Selbyana 30(1): 16. 2009 Luer drawing fide; Orchid Digest 74(2): 69. 2010 Luer; Flora of Ecuador No 88 Lepanthes and affiliates Dodson & Luer 2011 as Penducella chelopsepala drawing fide

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