Pleurothallis cypripedioides Luer 1975 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Effusae Lindl. 1842
Side View of Flower Photos by Egon Kogsgaard
Another Clone Photo by Patricia Harding
Photos by Danny Lentz ©, plant grown by Atlanta Botanical Garden
TYPE Drawing TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
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Common Name The Cypripedium-Like Pleurothallis [Refers to the pouch-like lip]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Ecuador and Peru at elevations of 350 to 1000 meters as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coricaeous, elliptical, subacute, narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a weak, more or less lendent, lax, disitchous, flexuous, to 2" [5 cm] long, successively several to many flowered inflorescence subtended by a spathe with an annulus at below the apex of the ramicaul.
Synonyms Specklinia cypripedioides (Luer) Luer 2004; Stelis cypripedioides (Luer) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001
References W3 Tropicos Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Miniature Orchids Northen 1980; Systematics of Pleurothallis Vol 3 Luer 1986; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XX Luer 2000 drawing fide; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4 2001 as Stelis cypripedioides; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 as Specklinia cypripedioides; AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 11 2006 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIX Luer 2007 as Effusiella cypripedioides; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 photo not
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