Pleurothallis cypelligera Luer & Hirtz 2002

SUBGENUS Ancipitia SECTION Ancipitia Luer 1986

Leaf and Inflorescence Photos by Alfonso Doucette and his Flickr Website

Common Name or Meaning The Cup Bearing Pleurothallis

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Ecuador at elevations of 1500 to 2300 meters as a warm to cool growing epiphyte with slender, erect, compressed above the middle ramicauls with a tubular sheath below the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, erect to spreading, ovate, acute, sessile, rounded and subcordate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a slender, suberect, .2 to .25" [5 to 7 mm] long, fascile of successively single flowered inflorescence arising through a reclining spathe at the base of the leaf and has a thin floral bract

"Distinguished by the concave, greenish white sepals, petals and lip all suffused with rose, the oblong petals and a concave suborbicular lip with minutely irregular lateral margins." Carl Luer

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIV Luer 2002 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 as Ancipitia cypelligera

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