Lepanthes pendens Garay 1956SUBGENUS Brachycladium
Photo by © Wiel Driessen and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana Bogota Colombia
Common Name The Pendant Lepanthes
Flower Size .2" [5mm]
Found in Cundinamarca and Boyaca departments of Colombia in temperate forests at elevations around 2500 meters as a to medium sized, pendant, cold growing epiphyte with to 20" [50 cm] or longer branches giving rise to short ramicauls enveloped by 1, lepanthiform sheath and carrying a single, apical, pendant, coriaceous, glabrous, elliptical, obtuse, 3 veined, basally rounded and contracted into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring and summer on an ascending, .25" [1.5 mm] successively few flowered, racemose inflorescence arising from near the apex of the ramicaul.
Synonyms Andinia pendens (Garay) Karremans & S.V.Uribe 2017; Brachycladium pendens (Garay) Luer 2005; Neooreophilus pendens (Garay) Archila 2009; Oreophilus pendens (Garay) Archila 2009; Penducella pendens (Garay) Luer 2010
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol 11 Luer 1994 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Luer 2005 as Brachycladium pendens; Selbyana 29(2): 202-8. 2009 Archila as Oreophila pendens; Orchid Digest 74(2): 69. 2010. Luer as Penducella pendens; Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Andinia pendens photo fide Checked tropicos type OK
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