Pleurothallis acinaciformis Wilson & Larsen 2019 SUBGENUS Ancipitia SECTION Ancipitia Luer 1986
TYPE photo/LCDP photo by © Mark Wilson and A beautiful new species of Pleurothallis (Orchidaceae, Pleurothallidinae) in the P. crocodiliceps complex from Colombia (researchgate.net)
Common Name or Meaning The Scimitar Shaped Pleurothallis [refers to the unusual petals that are curved downwards]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Colombia without locational data as a medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with erect, laterallycompressed, ancipitous ramicauls enveloped by a tubular sheath at the the middle and a another papery thin one at the base and carrying a single, apical, suberect, coriaceous, ovate, acute, sessile sides decurrent on the ramicaul leaf that blooms in the late spring on a fascile of .6" [1.5 cm] long, arising through a reclining spathe, filiform, erect, successsively single flowered inflorescence.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * A beautiful new species of Pleurothallis (Orchidaceae, Pleurothallidinae) in the P. crocodiliceps complex from Colombia (researchgate.net)
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