Pleurothallis hippocrepica Luer & R.Escobar 1984 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Antenniferae Luer 1998 Photo by © Andy Philipps and his Andy's Orchids Website
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Horse Shoe Shaped Pleurothallis [refers to the lip]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Colombia and Ecuador at elevations of 2500 to 2800 meters as a medium sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with stout, erect ramciauls enveloped by a tubular sheath below the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, ovate, acute, shortly acuminate, sessile and round base leaf that blooms in the spring and summer on 1 to 3, erect, distichous, subdense, 8 to 10" [20 to 25 cm] long, simultaneously many flowered, racemose inflorescence arising through a spathe and has tubular floral bracts.
"Similar to P pendulifera but differs in the ovate leaves that are not basally cordate, the triangular petals and a lip with long incurved lobes." Luer
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Systematics of Pleurothallis Vol 3 Luer 1986 drawing fide; 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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