Pleurothallis lepidota L.O.Williams 1940 SUBGENUS Unguella Luer 2004
Photo by © Byron Rinke and The Oklahoma Orchid Society Website.
Photo by Woodstream Orchids and their Woodstream Orchids Website.
Common Name
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Costa Rica and Panama at elevations of 1000 to 1300 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with slender, pendent ramcauls enveloped by 3 inflated, tuublar sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, pendent, sharp margined, purple veined and suffused, elliptical, subacute, acuminate, rounded or cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the fall and winter on a flaccid, pendent, disitichous, successively several flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms Acianthera lepidota (L.O.Williams) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001; Unguella lepidota (L.O.Williams) Luer 2005
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Panama L.O. Williams & P Allen 1946 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol 3 Luer 1986; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 as Unguella lepidota; Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Acianthera lepidota photo fide
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