Pleurothallis eccentrica Luer & Hirtz 1988 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Antenniferae Luer 1998
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Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name The Eccentric Pleurothallis
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Morona-Santiago province of Ecuador on road embankments or on trees in cloud forests at elevations of 2200 meters as a small sized, cold growing, caespitose terrestrial or epiphyte with slender, erect, ramicauls with close, tubular sheaths above the base and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, erect, narrowly ovate, acute, lightly acuminate, basally cuneate with or without a petiolate leaf that blooms in the winter on an erect, arising from a reclining spathe at the base of the leaf or laterally from the ramicaul, loose, slender, 1.2" to 2" [3 to 5 cm] long, 2 flowered singly produced inflorescence with a shorter than the pedicel floral bract.
The narrowly ovate leaf can vary greatly in the cuneate below into the nonpetiolate base to indistinctly petiolate to distinctly petiolate based. Smaller leaves are more likely to be petiolate based than the larger leaves. The long pedunculate inflorescence is either single or distantly and successively 2 flowered. The petals are narrowly linear and the noncallous lip is distinctly 3 lobed with the broadly rounded, convex lateral lobes.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Lindleyana 14 2:106 Luer 1999 as Octomeria excentrica;
*Revista Soc. Boliv. Bot. 3: 50 Luer 2001;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol iii Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014 as Apatoglossum excentricum
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