Pleurothallis tandapiensis (Luer & Hirtz) J.M.H.Shaw 2014 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciclatae Lindl. 1859

TYPE Drawing of Acronia tandapiensis by Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

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Common Name or Meaning The Tandapi Pleurothallis [Ecuadorean town near species discovery]

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Pichincha province of Ecuador at elevations aroumd 1600 meters as a miniature to small sized, cool growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls with a close tubular sheath below the middle and another at the base carrying a single, suberect, coriaceous, narrowly ovate, acute, sessile, shallowly cordate base leaf that blooms in the summer on a short peduncle hidden within the spathe .4" [1 cm] long, successively single flowered inflorescence with a tubular floral bract and carrying a red-purple flower.

”This species from the western slopes of the Andes of Ecuador is similar to the variable, widely distributed P matudana but P tandapiensis differs in the small, narrowly ovate leaves and broader, denticulate petals. It had been considered a variation of P matudana because both have a thick and arcuate lip.” Luer 2005

Synonyms *Acronia tandapiensis Luer & Hirtz 2005

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Luer 2005 as Acronia tandapiaensis drawing fide;

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