Pleurothallis londonoi Luer 1996 SUBGENUS Ancipitia SECTION Ancipitia Luer 1986
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name or Meaning Londono's Pleurothallis [Colombian Orchid Enthusiast current]
Flower Size .12" [3 mm]
Found in Antioquia department of Colombia in cloud forests at elevations around 3150 meters as a small sized, cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with stout, erect ramicauls with a thin tubular sheath above the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, rigid, thickly coriaceous, suberect to spreading, narrowly ovate, acute, rounded to subcordate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the winter on erect, arising through and concealed by a reclining spathe, in a fascile of successively single, few flowered inflorescence at the base of the leaf and has a tubular, shorter than the pedicel floral bract.
"Vegetatively it is large for the SUBGENUS Ancipita, the the fleshy, purple-spotted, bilabiate flowers are average in size. The concave dorsal sepal and synsepal are similar, the thick ovate eptals are nearly as large and the lip is thick and ovate, laterally compressed at the apex with an oblique margin like the prow of a ship." Luer 1996
Synonyms Ancipitia londonoi (Luer) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
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