Pleurothallis lanceana Lodd. 1831 SUBGENUS Acianthera SECTION Brachystachyae Lindley 1859

Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website

Another Clone? Much longer petals

Photo by © Lourens Grobler

Full Shade Warm to Cool SummerFall Winter

Common Name Lance's Pleurothallis [English Orchid Enthusiast 1800's]

Flower Size 3/8" [1 cm]

Found from Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Venezuela as well as Trinidad as a miniature, creeping or caespitose, hot to warm growing epiphyte that occurs in montane rain forest and evergreen forests at elevations of 0 to 2100 meters with a terete ramicaul with a single, apical, elliptic, obtuse, apiculate, thicker along the midrib, thickly coriaceous, gradually narrows below into the channeled petiole leaf and blooms in the summer, fall and winter on an apical, 4.5 to 5" [9 to 11 cm] long, pendulous, racemose, several flowered inflorescence with small, ovate-triangular, acuminate floral bracts that holds the flowers at mid-leaf or at leaf length and open in succession.

Synonyms Acianthera lanceana (G.Lodd.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001; Humboldtia crassifolia (H.Focke) Kuntze 1891; Humboldtia lanceana (Lodd. ex Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Humboltia crassifolia (Focke) Kuntze 1891; Humboltia lanceana (Lodd.) Kuntze 1891; Pleurothallis crassifolia Focke 1849; Pleurothallis huebneri Schltr. 1925

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 4 Dunsterville & Garay 1966 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 36 #9 1967; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 2 1970 drawing fide; Fieldiana Biology, Vol 33, 1st Supple. to the Orchids of Peru Schweinfurth 1970; Orchidaceae Brasilensis Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing hmm; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 238 Dodson 1980 drawing fide; Systematics of Pleurothallis Vol 2 Luer 1986; The Orchids of Surinam Werkhoven 1986; Orchids from The Coast Of Ecuador Arosemana, Jurado, Estrada and Konanz 1988 photo ok; The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 161 Bennett & Christenson 1993 drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide; Orchids of Bolivia Vasquez & Ibisch Vol 1 2000; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4 2001 as Acianthera lanceana; Australian Orchid Review Vol 68 No 5 2003 photo; Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 photo ok; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 drawing ok; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 drawing good; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 2005 as Acianthera lanceana photos fide; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide as Acianthera lanceana; 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 lanceana; Phytotaxa 422 (3) Zambrano 2019 as Acianthera lanceana drawing fide;

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