Salpistele dielsii (Mansf.) Luer 1986 SUBGENUS Andinia
Photos by © I. Olmedo and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Photo by Masdevallia workgroup © and The Dutch Pleurothallid Alliance Website
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name or Meaning Diels' Salpistele [German Orchid Collector Ecuador 1900's]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations of 2400 to 3400 meters as a small sized, cold growing repent epiphyte with well spaced ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coricaeous, elliptical, acute to subacute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a suberect, 2.8" [7 cm] long, loose, successively several flowered inflorescence arising from high on the ramicaul and has an oblique acute floral bract.
Synonyms Andinia dielsii (Mansf.) Luer 2000; *Lepanthes dielsii Mansf. 1937; Lepanthes echinocarpa L.O.Williams 1940; Oreophilus dielsii (Mansf.) Archila 2009
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Systematics of the Pleurothallidinae Vol 1 1986 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum VIII Systematics of Lepanthopsis, Octomeria subgenus Pleurothallopsis, Restrepiella, Salpistele and Teagueia Luer 1991 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XX Luer 2000 as Andinia dielsii drrawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 42 - 43 pg 2626 - 2762 Brieger 2001 as Andinia dielsii drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004 as drawing/photo fide; Flora Of Ecuador # 76 225[2] Dodson & Luer 2005 drawing fide as Andinia dielsii; Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Andinia dielsii photo fide
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