Pleurothallis viduata Luer 1981 SUBGENUS Ancipitia SECTION Ancipitia Luer 1986
Photo by © The Ecuagenera Orchid Website
Photo by Eric Hunt, plant grown by Dan Newman of Hanging Gardens
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name The Lost Pleurothallis [refers to the missing collection data]
Flower Size 3/8" [1 cm]
Found in Ecuador at elevations around 2800 meters as a small sized, cold growing epiphyte with erect, slender, sharply ancipitous ramicauls with a tubular bract above the base and 2 to 3 sheaths at the base carrying a single, apical, rigid, coriaceous, erect, ovate, acute, sessile leaf with a conduplicate, rounded base with the sides decurrent on the ramicaul that blooms several times a year with a fascile of solitary, successive flowers arising from a reclining spathe and having a single floral bract.
Synonyms Ancipitia viduata (Luer) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Systematics of Pleurothallis Vol 3 Luer 1986; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol VI Systematics of Pleurothallis subgen Ancipita, Scopula and Trisetella Luer 1989 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Luer 2004 as Ancipitia viduata; AOS Bulletin Vol 88 #10 2019 photo fide;
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