Pleurothallis niveoglobula Luer 1975 SUBGENUS Ancipitia SECTION Ancipitia Luer 1986
Photo courtesy of Joseph Dougherty.
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
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Common Name The Spherical-White Pleurothallis
Flower Size .8" [2 mm]
Found in Pastaza, Morona-Santiago , Zamora-Chinchipe and Napo provinces of Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations 500 to 1650 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing, densely caespitose epiphyte with erect, slender, laterally compressed above the middle, subtended by 2 to 3 sheaths and another above the base carrying a coriaceous, somewhat spreading, ovate, acute leaf with a rounded, shallowly cordate, sessile base that blooms at most any time of the year on a arising from an erect-arcuate, reclining spathe, .5" [1.25 cm] long, fascile of successively single, few flowered inflorescence with much shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.
"Distinguished by the tiny glabrous, snow white flowers, suborbicular, deeply concave sepals and a simple ovate lip." Luer 1989
Synonyms Ancipitia niveoglobula (Luer) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Selbyana 1:258 Luer 1975 drawing fide;
Miniature Orchids Northen 1980 photo fide;
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 Dodson 2003 drawing fide;
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 Ancipitia niveo-globula;
Mille et Une Mini Orchideees Roguenant 2009 photo ok;
AOS Bulletin Vol 88 #6 2019 photo fide;
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