Pleurothallis tipuloides Luer 1983
SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Acroniae SERIES Amphygiae Luer 1998
Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding
Common Name The Crane Fly-Like Pleurothallis
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
An epiphyte from Colombia and Ecuador that is found in cloud forest around 1600 meters in elevation with slender, erect ramicauls with close tubular sheaths above the base and carrying a single, apical, thinly coriaceous, subspreading, sessile, ovate, acute, long-mucronate, broadly cuneate to rounded below leaf that blooms in the spring on a fascile of single flowered, .6" to .8" [1.5 to 2 cm] long, inflorescence arising through a prostrate spathe at the base of the leaf .
" SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Acroniae SERIES Amphygiae Luer 1998 contains several species with proportionately large flowers, the lateral sepals completely connate into a long, narrowly attenuate synsepal, with the similarly shaped petals varying from two-thirds as long to as long as the synsepal. Pleurthallis quadricaudata Schltr. and P tetrachaeta Luer share a triangular-sagittate lip with a narrowly acute apex, while the apical lobe of the lip of P. tipuloides Luer Luer is narrowly triangular with a sharply acute apex. The lip of P. thoerleae is short and rounded, with an abruptly protruding apiculum." Luer 2012
Synonyms Acronia tipuloides (Luer) Luer 2005
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Systematics of Pleurothallis Vol 3 Luer 1986; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVII Systematics of Pleurothallis Section Abortivae, Truncatae, Subsection Acroniae, Subgenera Dracontia and Uncifera Luer 1998 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Luer 2005 as Acronia tipuloides
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