Pleurothallis lamia Luer 1979 SUBGENUS Acianthera SECTION Brachystachyae Lindley 1859
Photo by © Alexander Hirtz
Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
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Common Name The Bugbear Pleurothallis [refers to the appearance of the flower]
Flower Size .2 [5 mm]
Found in Ecuador at elevations of 2900 to 3300 meters as a small to medium sized, cold growing epiphyte with erect, sharply 3 winged, thicker towards the apex ramicauls with 2 to 3 thin, tubular sheath at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, fleshy coriaceous, elliptical-ovate, acute to subacute, sessile base leaf that blooms in the winter and again in the summer on a fascile of successive, congested, 6 to 10" [15 to 25 cm] long including the .2" [5 mm] long peduncle, simultaneously 2 to 6 flowered inflorescence arising through a spathe at the apex of the ramicaul
Synonyms Acianthera lamia (Luer) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Luer 1986; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2005 drawing fide; Anales Jard. Bot. Madrid 75(1)e069: 13 2018 A taxonomic synopsis of Acianthera (Orchidaceae: Pleurothallidinae) in Peru, including two new species Damian, Chiron and Mitidieri 2018 as Acianthera lamia; Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Acianthera lamia photo fide
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