Pleurothallis niveoglobula Luer 1975 SUBGENUS Ancipitia SECTION Ancipitia Luer 1986
Photo courtesy of Joseph Dougherty.
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
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Common Name The Spherical-White Pleurothallis
Flower Size .8" [2 mm]
Found in Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations 500 to 1650 meters as a miniaturesized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with erect, slender, laterally compressed above the middle, subtended by 2 to 3 sheaths and another above the base carrying a coriaceous, somewhat spreading, ovate, acute leaf with a rounded, shallowly cordate, sessile base that blooms at most any time of the year on a 1/2" [1.25 cm] long, fascile of solitary, successive flowers arising from aa reclining spathe with glabrous, snow white flowers.
Synonyms Ancipitia niveoglobula (Luer) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Miniature Orchids Northen 1980 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol 3 Luer 1986; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol VI Systematics of Pleurothallis subgen Ancipita, Scopula and Trisetella Luer 1989 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 as Ancipitia niveo-globula; Mille et Une Mini Orchideees Roguenant 2009 photo ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 88 #6 2019 photo fide;
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