Pleurothallis scansor Luer 1981 SUBGENUS Crocodeilanthe [Rchb.f & Warsc.]Luer 1986

TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer

LATE

Common Name or Meaning The Climbing Pleurothallis [refers to the creeping habit]

Flower Size .24" [6 mm]

Found in Cauca and Narino departments of Colombia and Carchi and Susumbios provinces of Ecuador at elevations around 2700 to 3200 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing, repent epiphyte or terrestrial with more or less fasciculate, ascending, stout ramicauls enveloped by loose imbricating tubular sheaths and carrying a single, erect, coriaceous, elliptical-oblong, obtuse, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late spring summer and fall on a single, erect, slender, more or less secund, peduncle 2.8 to 4" [7 to 10 cm] long, arising through a slender spathe .6 to 1" [1.5 to 2.5 cm] long, from an annulus below the apex of the ramicaul, rachis 3.2 to 10" [8 to 25 cm] long, densely and simultaneously many flowered inflorescence, with the infundibular longer than the pedicels floral bract and carrying flowers with yellow-orange to yellow-green sepals, transluscent brown petals and a fleshy brown lip.

Synonyms Crocodeilanthe scansor (Luer) Luer 2004; Stelis reptans Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2002; Stelis scansor (Luer) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001 nom illeg.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XVI Luer 1998 Drawing fide

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