Pleurothallis lamellaris Lindl. 1859 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Macrophyllae-Racemosae [Lindl] Luer 1986
Photo by Rodrigo Escobar
Photo by Richard Korber.
Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name The Lamina Pleurothallis [refers to the calli of the lip]
Flower Size 2/5" [1 cm]
Found in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia at elevations of 1950 to 2930 meters as a medium to large sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with stout, erect, ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and another close to the middle carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, ovate, acute leaf with a cordate, sessile base that blooms in the spring on an arcuate, to 4" [to 10 cm] long, loosely several flowered inflorescence subtended basally by a spathe and with infundibulbar floral bracts holding the simultaneously opening flowers.
"Disitinguished by the stout ramicaul carrying a single, ovate, cordate leaf that blooms on an arching raceme of relatively large flowers with sepals intenely striped in purple, extremely thick petals adherent to each other and a rounded, bicallous, minutely denticulate lip with broad basal lobes clasping the column." Luer 1999
Synonyms Humboldtia lamellaris (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891 ; Humboltia lamellaris (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Pleurothallis loxensis Luer & Hirtz 1996
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Systematics of Pleurothallis Vol 3 Luer 1986; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998 as P loxensis photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVIII Systematics of Pleurothallis subsection Antenniferae, Longiracemosae, Macrophyllae-Racemosae and Subgenera Pseudsostelis and Acuminata Luer 1999 drawing fide;Orchids of Bolivia Vasquez & Ibisch Vol 1 2000 drawing/photo fide Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 as P loxensis drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 drawing fide; Macchu Picchu Orchids Eric Christenson 2003 photo fide; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 photo fide; Las Orquideas del Peru Izerskyy & Bezverhov 2011 photo fide
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