Pleurothallis otopetalum Schltr.1912 SUBGENUS Kraenzlinella [Kuntze] Luer 1986
Photos by © S Manning and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia
Common Name The Otopetalum Pleurothallis [The genus from which it was originally described]
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in southwestern Colombia, Ecuador and Peru at elevations 800 to 2300 meters as a small sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte with stout, terete, erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, elliptical-ovate, subacute to obtuse, cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms on a loose, subsecund, subflexuous, terete, to 20" [50 cm] long, successively several to many flowered, racmose inflorescence arising through a spathe at the apex of the ramicaul with oblique, acute, compressed floral bracts and carries 1 to 4 open flowers at any one time
Synonyms Acianthera tunguraguae (F.Lehm. & Kraenzl.) A.Doucette 2016; Kraenzlinella otopetalum (Schltr.) Luer 2004; Kraenzlinella tunguraguae (F.Lehm. & Kraenzl.) Kuntze ex Engl. & Prantl 1906; *Otopetalum tunguraguae F.Lehm. & Kraenzl. 1899
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 245 Dodson 1980 drawing good; Icones Pleurothallidianrum Vol 3 Luer 1986; Icones Orchidacearum Plate 162 Bennett & Christenson 1993 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidianrum Vol 11 Luer 1994 Drawing fide; Macchu Picchu Orchids Eric Christenson 2003; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 as Kraenzlinella otopetalum; Anales Jard. Bot. Madrid 75(1)e069: 13 2018 A taxonomic synopsis of Acianthera (Orchidaceae: Pleurothallidinae) in Peru, including two new species Damian, Chiron and Mitidieri 2018 as Acianthera tungurasguae photo fide; Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Acianthera tunguraguae photo fide
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