Pleurothallis ocellus (Luer) Luer 1986 SUBGENUS Andreettaea Luer 1986
Photos by © Alexander Hirtz
Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
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Common Name or Meaning The Little Eye Pleurothallis [refers to the parting of the lateral sepals to form a "Window" upper surface of the flowers]
Flower Size .1" [2.5 mm]
Found in Morona-Santiago province of Ecuador at elevations of 2800 to 2900 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, elliptical, subacute to obtuse, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer and winter on an erect, slender, .6 t o.8" [1.5 to 2 cm] long lax, successively single, 2 to 3 flowered inflorescence arising from a node on the ramicaul and has thin infundibular floral bracts.
Synonyms Andreettaea ocellus Luer 1978
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Systematics of Pleurothallis Vol 3 Luer 1986 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006; Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Andreettaea ocellus photo fide
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