Pleurothallis furcifera Luer 1976 SUBGENUS Ancipitia SECTION Ancipitia Luer 1986
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TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Fork Bearing Pleurothallis [refers to the bifid lip]
Flower Size .08" [2 mm]
Found in Huanaco department of Peru at elevations around 1450 meters as a mini-miniature to miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with slender, erect, laterally compressed above the middle ramicauls with a tubular sheath above the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, rigid, coriaceous, narrowly ovate, acute, cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the fall on a fascile of filiform, successively single, few flowered inflorescence arising through and concealed mostly by a reclining spathe arising from above the base of the leaf.
Synonyms Ancipitia furcifera (Luer) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Luer 1986; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol VI Systematics of Pleurothallis subgen Ancipita, Scopula and Trisetella Luer 1989 drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 158 Bennett & Christenson 1993 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 as Ancipitia furcifera
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