Pleurothallis trimytera Luer & R.Escobar 1983 SUBGENUS Aenigma SECTION Aenigma Luer 1986
Photo by © Sebastaian Vierra and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia
Common Name The Three Pronged Pleurothallis [refers to the three lobed lip]
Flower Size .1" [2mm]
Found in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and ?Bolivia in dense forests at elevations around 2100 to 2500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing, shortly repent epiphyte with slender ramicauls enveloped by 1 or 2 thin, tubular basal sheaths and carrying a single, apical, reclining to prostrate, thickly coriaceous, elliptical, obtuse to rounded, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a loose, .15 to .25" [4 to 6 mm] long, successively 2 flowered, racemose inflorescence arising laterally from the ramicaul and has an oblique, acute floral bract.
"It is identified by the very small, more or less prostrate habit with overlapping leaves; a short, one or successively two flowered inflorescence; a densely long-pubescent ovary; minutely erose, lightly acuminate sepals; vestigial petals less than .004" [.1 mm] long; and an acutely tri-pronged lip." Luer 1994
Synonyms Andinia trimytera (Luer & R.Escobar) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Orquideologia Vol 16 No 1 1983 drawing;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
Orchids of Bolivia Vol 1 Vasquez & Ibisch 2000;
Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:252 Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001 as Andnia trimytera;
Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 as P subgenus aenigma pg 195 top photo fide;
Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide as Andinia trimytera;
Orquideas del Valle de Aburra Medellin Colombia Orqidelogia 2014 photo fide;
Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Andinia trimytera photo fide
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