Lepanthes dactyla Garay 1971 SUBGENUS Brachycladium SECTION Amplectentes>
Photos by © Milan Vagner
Drawing Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana Bogota Colombia
Type sheet drawing and photo Original Drawing and Type Sheet © Courtesy of The Epidendra Website
Common Name The Finger Lepanthes [refers to the petals shape]
Flower Size 1/10" [3mm]
Found in Antioquia, Boyaca and Norte de Santander departments of Colombia in scrub cloud forests at elevations around 1950 to 2600 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with a pendant, long-repent chain of abbreviated ramicauls enveloped by a long ciliate, lepanthiform sheath and carrying a single, apical, descending, coriaceous, ciliate, sparsely pubescent, broadly elliptical, obtuse, 3 to 5 veined, cuneate into the petiolate base leaf that blooms on a slender, upcurved, .08" [2mm] long, single flowered inflorescence with an apiculate floral bract.
Synonyms Andinia dactyla (Garay) Karremans & S.V.Uribe 2016; Brachycladium dactylum (Garay) Luer 2005; Neooreophilus dactylus (Garay) Archila 2009; Oreophilus dactylus (Garay) Archila 2009; Penducella dactyla (Garay) Luer 2010
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XI Luer 1994; Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Luer 2005 as Brachycladium dactylum; Orchid Digest Vol 74 #2 2010 as Penducella dactyla; Orquideas de Farallones de Cali Galindo-Tarazona, Haelterman, Zuluaga Trochez and Sebastian Moreno 2020 as Andinia dactyla photo fide
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