Pleurothallis trimytera Luer & R.Escobar 1983 SUBGENUS Aenigma SECTION Aenigmata Luer 1986
Photo by © Sebastaian Vierra and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia
Common Name The Three Pronged Pleurothallis [refers to the three lobed lip]
Flower Size .1" [2mm]
Found in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and ?Bolivia in dense forests at elevations around 2100 to 2500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with slender ramicauls enveloped by 1 or 2 thin, tubular basal sheaths and carrying a single, apical, reclining to prostrate, thickly coriaceous, elliptical, obtuse to rounded, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a loose, .15 to .25" [4 to 6 mm] long, successively 2 flowered, racemose inflorescence arising laterally from the ramicaul and has an oblique, acute floral bract.
Synonyms Andinia trimytera (Luer & R.Escobar) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orquideologia Vol 16 No 1 1983 drawing; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol 3 Luer 1986; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol 11 Luer 1994 drawing fide; Orchids of Bolivia Vol 1 Vasquez & Ibisch 2000; Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 as P subgenus aenigma pg 195 top photo fide; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide as Andinia trimytera; Orquideas del Valle de Aburra Medellin Colombia Orqidelogia 2014 photo fide; Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Andinia trimytera photo fide
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