Pleurothallis trifurcata Luer & Hirtz 1996 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Antenniferae Luer 1998
Photo by © Ron Parsons
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
LATER
Common Name The 3 Pronged Lip Pleurothallis
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in southeastern Ecuador on the eastern slopes of the Andes at elevations of 2600 to 3100 meters as a small sized, cold growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by a thin tubular sheath near the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, acute, shortly acuminate, broadly to narrowly cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the later summer and fall on 1 to 2, erect to arching, 3.2 to 8" [8 to 20 cm] long, loose, simultaneouwly several flowered inflorescence arising through a slender spathe at the base of the leaf.
"Similar to P saltatoria but differs mostly in the deeply trifurcate lip which is trilobed withan ovate middle lobe and the lateral lobes obliquely obtuse." Luer 1999
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVIII Systematics of Pleurothallis subsection Antenniferae, Longiracemosae, Macrophyllae-Racemosae and Subgenera Pseudsostelis and Acuminata Luer 1999 drawing fide;
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