!Echinosepala aspasicensis (Rchb. f.) Pridgeon & M.W. Chase 2002
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Photo by Nigel Carter
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Common Name The Aspasica Echinosepala [Town in the province of Santander, Colombia]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found from Costa Rica south to Bolivia, Venezuela, Guyana and Brazil in cloud forests as a medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte of moist forests, but it can also be encountered growing as a lithophyte or terresrial on sandstone outcrops in open habitats of southern Venezuela, at elevations of 550 to 1900 meters with stout, erect ramicauls enveloped by 6 to 8 loose, tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, subacute leaf that is cuneate below into the conduplicate, sessile base that blooms in the winter and spring on a fascile of one to several, reptilian, singular flowers ariseing from the deep cleft of the conduplicate base of the leaf
Synonyms Brenesia aspasicensis (Rchb.f.) Luer 2004; Echinella aspasicensis (Rchb.f.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001; Humboldtia aspasicensis (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891; Humboltia aspasicensis (Rchb. f.) Kuntze 1891; Myoxanthus alexanderae (Schltr.) Luer 1922; Myoxanthus aspasicensis (Rchb. f.) Luer 1986; Myoxanthus pastacensis (Luer) Luer 1986; Pleurothallis alexandrae Schltr. 1923; *Pleurothallis aspasicensis Rchb. f. 1855; Pleurothallis pastacensis Luer 1976
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1855 as Pleurothallis aspacensis; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Luer 1986 as Pleurothallis aspasicensis; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol IX Systematics of Myoxanthus Luer 1992 as Myoxanthus aspasciensis drawing fide ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XII as Pleurothallis aspasciensis; Orchids of Bolivia Vol 1 Pleurothallidinae Vasquez & Ibisch 2000 as Pleurothallis aspacensis drawing good; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4 2001 as Echinella aspacensis; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 as Pleurothallis aspacensis photo fide; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 as Pleurothallis aspacensis; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003 as Pleurothallis aspacensis; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 as Brenesia aspacensis; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005 photo fide; Orchids of Costa Rica Vol 5 Morales 2009 as Pleurothallis aspasicensis photo ok; LANKESTERIANA 17(2): Pupulin 2017 photo fide;
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