Pleurothallis anceps Luer 1979 SUBGENUS Ancipitia SECTION Ancipitia Luer 1986 TYPE for the SECTION
Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website
Photo by Jay Pfahl
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name or Meaning The Double Edged Pleurothallis [refers to the compressed ramicaul]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Nariño department of Colombia and Carchi, Imbabura and Pichincha provinces of Ecuador at elevations around 1400 to 2200 meters as a small sized, cool to cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with stout, erect, sharply ancipitous ramicauls with a thin tubular sheath above the base and 2 others at the base and carrying a single, coriaceous, erect, ovate to narrowly ovate, acute, cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the fall on horizontal-arcuate, arising through a reclining, .2 to .4" [5 to 10 mm] long spathe at the apex of the ramicaul, in a fascicle of successively single, few flowered inflorescence with 1/3 to 1/2 as long as the pedicel floral bracts.
The deep, sharply laterally compressed ramicaul bears an erect, rigid leaf with a carinate midrib and with revolute margins. The dorsal sepal and synsepal are narrowly ovate and similar, the narrow pointed petals are serrulate and the lip is ovate and simple." Luer 1989
Synonyms Ancipitia anceps (Luer) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Selbyana 5(2): 159 Luer 1979;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol VI Systematics of Pleurothallis subgen Ancipita, Scopula and Trisetella Luer 1989 drawing fide;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 2003 photo fide;
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