Pleurothallis amaliae Luer & R. Escobar 1981 SUBGENUS Uncifera
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name Amalia's Pleurothallis [First Flowered by Sra Amalia Lehmann de Sarria, Colombian Current]
Flower Size .2" [5mm]
Found in Cauca and Valle de Cauca departments of southern Colombia at elevatios of 100 to 500 meters as a miniature sized, hot growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly obovate, subacute to obtuse, narrowly cuneate below into the conduplicate base leaf that blooms in the summer on an erect, arising from near the apex of the ramicaul, subflexuous, 14" [35 cm] long, loose, distichous, successively many flowered, racemose inflorescence with oblique, acute, as long as the pedicel floral bracts.
"Distinguished by the abbreviated ramicauls and a narrowly obovae leaf that is far surpassed by the continualy flowering raceme. The sepals ae acute and glabrous and the basal lobes of the lip are large and uncinate. A pair of carinae converges from both sides of the disc to meet above the middle. The margins of the anterior lobe as well as the petals are minutely serrate. The inflorescence in the drawing is shorter than some specimens, I have seen it to be almost twice as long." Luer 1998
Synonyms Stelis amaliae (Luer & R. Escobar) Pridgeon & M.W. Chase 2001; Unciferia amaliae (Luer & R. Escobar) Luer 2004;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Orquideología 14(2): 124 Luer and Escobar 1981 drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
Lindleyana 16: 261 Pridgeon & Chase 2001 as Stelis amaliae;
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