Pleurothallis tetragona Luer & Escobar 1981 SUBGENUS Ancipitia SECTION Ancipitia Luer 1986
Photos by © Jay Pfahl
Photo by © Jorge Mario Munera
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
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Common Name The Four Sided Pleurothallis [refers to the inflorescence]
Flower Size 3/8" [1 cm]
Found in Colombia in wet montane forests from elevations around 1200 to 2600 meters and is a small sized, cold to warm growing epiphytewith slender, erect, sharply 4 angled above the base ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 tubular, inflated sheaths and one above the middle carrying a single, apical, rigid, coriaceous, erect, elliptical, acute leaf with the base broadly cuneate to rounded and seccurrent on the ramicaul.
This small sectioned orchid blooms in the summer on a fascile of solitary successive flowers bourne from a reclining spate.
Synonyms Ancipitia tetragona (Luer & R. Escobar) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orquideologia Vol 14 #2 Luer & Escobar 1981 drawing fide; Systematics of Pleurothallis Vol 3 Luer 1986; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol VI Systematics of Pleurothallis subgen Ancipita, Scopula and Trisetella Luer 1989 drawing fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 3 COS 1991 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 as Ancipitia tetragona; Orquideas del Valle de Aburra Medellin Colombia Orqidelogia 2014 photo not
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