Pleurothallis archidonae Lindl. 1859 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Macrophyllae-Racemosae [Lindl] Luer 1986

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Common Name or Meaning The Archidona Pleurothallis [A town in Napo Ecuador]

Flower Size .2" [5mm]

Found in Ecuador at elevations around 1850 meters as a small to medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with erect, stout ramicauls enveloped by a close, tubular sheath below the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, acute, narrowly cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the summer on a fascile of 1 to 2, .4" [1 cm] long, 1 to loosely 2 flowered, racemose inflorescence arising through a fugaceous spathe and has infundibular floral bracts.

Characterized by the long, stout ramicaul, narrowly elliptical, acute leaf that blooms at the base of the leaf on a fascile of old inflorescence from which the single flower often followed by a second ona very short raceme. The flower is pendent and resupinate. The synsepal is cucullate above the middle sepal and parellel petals. The lip is suborbicular with the basal lobes surrounding the column, A pair of hor-like calli protrude from the disc at the base. Similar to P hartwegii but this one differs with longer and more slender calli and the apex of the lip is rounded." Luer 1999

Synonyms Humboldtia archidonae (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Luer 1986; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVIII Systematics of Pleurothallis subsection Antenniferae, Longiracemosae, Macrophyllae-Racemosae and Subgenera Pseudsostelis and Acuminata Luer 1999 drawing fide;

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