Pleurothallis onagriceps Luer & Hirtz 1989 SUBGENUS Ancipitia SECTION Ancipitia Luer 1986
Photo By Patricia Harding.
Photo By Nelocactus Website
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name The Donkey Head Pleurothallis [refers to the flowers shape]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in southern Ecuador in cloud forests as a cool growing epiphyte at elevations of 1550 to 1660 meters with erect, slender, sharply ancipitous ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, coriaceous, ovate, acute leaf with the base rounded and shallowly cordate that blooms in the spring on a fascile of successively single flowered, .6" [1.5 cm] long inflorescnece that arise from a reclining spathe.
Synonyms Ancipitia onagriceps (Luer & Hirtz) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Systematics of Pleurothallis Vol 3 Luer 1986; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol VI Systematics of Pleurothallis subgen Ancipita, Scopula and Trisetella Luer 1989 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 as Ancipitia onagriceps
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