Pleurothallis ensata Luer 1975 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl 1859
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TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
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Common Name The Fringed Pleurothallis
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Pichincha province of Ecuador on the western slopes of the Andes in very wet montane forests often in citrus, coffee and guava trees at elevations around 800 to 1500 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by a close tubular sheath below the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, acute, cuneate into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the late winter, spring and summer on a fascile, arising through a spathe, of .05 to .1" [1 to 2 mm] long, successive, single flowered inflorescene with a thin, tubular, shorter than the pedicel floral bract.
Differs from others in the section by tall slender ramicauls with erect, narrowly elliptic leaves that are narrrowly cuneate at the base as well as obtuse sepals, thickly triangular petals and an oblong lip with a rounded apex.
Synonyms Acronia ensata (Luer) Luer 2005; Zosterophyllanthos ensatus (Luer) Szlach. & Marg. 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Selbyana 1(3): 224, f. 47. Luer 1975 drawing fide;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 228 Dodson 1980 drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia ensata
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia ensata drawing fide
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