Pleurothallis lappago Luer 1980 SUBGENUS Kraenzlinella [Kuntze] Luer 1986
Photos by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Burr-Bearing Pleurothallis
Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]
Found in El Oro province of Ecuador at elevations of 400 to 1500 meters as a miniature to just medium sized, hot to cool growing, shortly repent to caespitose epiphyte with erect, stout, ramicaul enveloped basally by 2 to 3, thin, tubular, imbricating sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, rigid, ovate, acute to subacute, more or less convex, cuneate below into the rounded, sessile base leaf that blooms in the spring on a drooping, arising through a spathe at the apex of the ramicaul, subdense, successively few flowered, 1.4" [3.5 cm] long, racemose inflorescence with loose, infundibulbar, shorter than the pedicel floral bracts and has a shortly bristly ovary.
"It is found growing on mossy limbs in wet forests at relatively low altitudes. identified by stout ramicaul and a thick, ovoid leaf; a short, drooping inflorescence of large, heavy flowers; large, burr-like ovaries; acute, carinate, purple speckled sepals; pointed petals with obsolescent basal lobules; an ovate blade of the lip with a pair of serrulate carinae; and a concave, decurved claw bilobulate at the base." Luer 1994
Similar to P phrynoglossa but it differs in the much more warty lip and the acute sepals.
Synonyms Kraenzlinella lappago (Luer) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Phytologia 46: 368 Luer 1980;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 239 Dodson 2000 drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 photo fide to the 1st photo;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Pleurothallis subgenus Acianthera and Three Allied subgenera, A Second Century of new Species of Stelis of Ecuador, Epibator, Ophidion and Zootrophion Luer 2004 as Kraenzlinella lappago;
Phytotaxa 275: 272 Doucette 2016 as Acianthera
Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Acianthera lappago photo fide
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