Pleurothallis tripterantha Rchb.f 1854
Photo by Eric Hunt
Photo by © Jay Pfahl
Photo by Dale and Deni Borders
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Common Name The Three Winged Pleurothallis [refers to the curved sepals]
Flower Size 3/8" [1 cm]
Found in Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, and Argentina in wet montane forests at elevations of 900 to 2700 meters in altitude as a creeping, miniature sized, warm to cold growing epiphytic species with a very short ramicaul carrying a single, apical, oblong, acute, gradually narrowing below into the conduplicate, petiolate base, coriaceous leaf that blooms in the late spring and summer on a apical, racemose, horizontal to laxly pendulous, 2 3/4" [7 cm] longer than the leaf, loosely flowered inflorescence that has several, simultaneously opening flowers.
Synonyms Anthereon tripteranthus (Rchb.f.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001; Humboldtia procumbens (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Humboldtia tripterantha (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891; Humboldtia tripterygia (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891; Humboltia procumbens (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Humboltia tripterantha (Rchb. f.) Kuntze 1891; Humboltia tripterygia (Rchb. f.) Kuntze 1891; Lepanthes tricarinata (Poepp. & Endl.) Barb. Rodr. 1882; Masdevallia aperta Kraenzl. 1921; Masdevallia carpophora Kraenzl. 1921; Masdevallia tricarinata (Barb.Rodr.) F.Lehm. & Kraenzl. 1899; Pabstiella aptera [Kraenzl] Pupulin 2020; Pabstiella tripterantha (Rchb.f.) F.Barros 2002; Pleurothallis aperta (Kraenzl.) Ames 1921; Pleurothallis hamata Rolfe ex Ames 1923; Pleurothallis hunteriana Schltr. 1922; Pleurothallis medellinensis Schltr. 1920; Pleurothallis procumbens Lindl. 1859; Pleurothallis trialata Cogn. 1896; Pleurothallis tripterygia Rchb. f. 1854; Scaphosepalum carpophorum (Kraenzl.) Garay 1967; Specklinia tripterantha (Rchb.f.) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR; *Bonplandia 2(2): 24. 1854; Bonplandia 2(2): 24. 1854 as P tripterygia; Xenia Orchidaceae Rchb.f 1854 drawing; *Xenia Orchidaceae Rchb.f 1854 as P triperygia drawing;Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 668. 1891 as Humboldtia tripterantha; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 17: 20. Panama Schlechter 1922 as P hunteriana; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1959 as P procumbens drawing good; Flora de Venezuela Volumen 15 Parte 2 Foldats 1970 drawing good; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 as P tripterygia drawing good; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Systematics of Pleurothallis Vol 3 Luer 1986 drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II plate 0286 Dodson & Vasquez 1989 drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 553 Bennett & Christenson 1998 drawing ok; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 as P tripterygia drawing good; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XX Luer 2000 drawing fide; Orchids of Bolivia Vasquez & Ibisch Vol 1 2000 photo/drawing fide; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4 2001 as Antheron tripteranthus; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 as Specklinia tripternatha; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII Luer 2006 as Pabstiella tripterantha drawing fide; The Organ Mountain Range Its History and Its Orchids Miller, Warren, Miller and Seehawer 2008 drawing fide; Orchids of Costa Rica Vol 5 Morales 2009 photo fide; Mille et Une Mini Orchideees Roguenant 2009 as Pabstiella tripterantha photo fide; Orquideas del Valle de Aburra Medellin Colombia Orqidelogia 2014 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol #9 2019 as Pabstiella tripterantha photo fide; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 as Pabstiella aptera photo fide
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