Pleurothallis forceps-cancri Luer & R. Escobar 1981 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Acroniae SERIES Amphygiae Luer 1998
Another Angle in situ East of Guatepe Colombia 2200 meters
Photos by Jay Pfahl
Flower straight on showing crab claw sepals
Photos by Eric Hunt, plant grown by the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers.
Photo by Patricia Harding
Photo by Jorge Mario Munera
Common Name The Crab-Claw Pleurothallis
Flower Size 3/5" [1.5 cm]
Found in Colombia at elevations around 2000 meters as a miniature, cool to cold growing epiphyte with slender, erect, ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 thin, tubular sheaths and another below the middle carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, spreading, ovate, acute leaf with a sessile, shallowly cordate base that blooms in the winter on a single, successive flowered, 1" [2.5 cm] long inflorescence arising from a spathe and having a floral bract and carrying a large single flower for the size of the plant..
Synonyms Acronia forceps-cancri (Luer & R.Escobar) Luer 2005
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orquideologia Vol 14 #2 Luer & Escobar 1981 drawing fide; Systematics of Pleurothallis Vol 3 Luer 1986; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 3 COS 1991 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVII Systematics of Pleurothallis Section Abortivae, Truncatae, Subsection Acroniae, Subgenera Dracontia and Uncifera Luer 1998 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Luer 2005 as Acronia forceps-cancri; AOS Bulletin Vol 89 #11 2020 photo fide;
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
