Pleurothallis anderssonii Luer 1996

SUBGENUS Acuminatia SECTION Acuminatae Luer 1986

TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name Anderson's Pleurothallis [Swedish Co discoverer of species current]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Loja province of Ecuador at elevations of 1750 to 2800 meters as a mini-miniature to small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with erect, prolific, producing another ramicaul from the apex of the last,slender, erect ramicaul enveloped by a tubular sheath near the middle and another at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, broadly elliptical, obtuse, rounded and contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on an erect, 4 to 8.8" [10 to 22 cm] long, including the peduncle .8 to 1.6" [2 to 4 cm] long, strict, subcongested, distichous, simultaneoulsy many flowered inflorescence arising through a narrow spathe and has oblique, acute floral bracts.

"The ramicauls are prolific, and the leaves are broadly elliptic and obtuse. The flowers are produced in erect, elongate, multiflowered racemes. The sepals are sharply acute and the petals are obtuse with the single vein prominent externally. The lip is oblong and thickened below the middle with erect broadly rounded margins." Luer 1999

Synonyms Anathallis anderssonii (Luer) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001; Specklinia anderssonii (Luer) Luer 2004

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVIII Systematics of Pleurothallis subsection Antenniferae, Longiracemosae, Macrophyllae-Racemosae and Subgenera Pseudsostelis and Acuminata Luer 1999 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 as Specklinia andersonii

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