Pleurothallis vorator Luer & R. Vásquez 1980 SUBGENUS Ancipitia SECTION Ancipitia Luer 1986
Photo by Ecuagenera Orchid Website
Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
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Common Name The Devourer Pleurothallis [An illusion to the column poised over the lip as the head of an animal about to eat from a dish]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Ecuador and La Paz department of Bolivia in cloud forests at elevations around 1000 to 2800 meters as a miniature to small sized, cool to cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped basally by inflated tubular sheaths that are ancipitous toward the apex and carrying a single, apical, elliptic, acute, conduplicate below into the base leaf that blooms in the late spring on erect, arising through a recling spathe at the base of the leaf, in a fascile of 1" [2.5 cm] long, successively, single flowered inflorescence with more or less half as long as the pedicel floral bracta and holding the flower above the mid vein of the folded leaf.
"The ovate leaf is conduplicate at the base. The gaping flowers are yellow-orange with a very small, suborbicular, slightly concave lip beneath an arcuate column with a seemingly oversized anther." Luer 1989
Synonyms Ancipitia vorator (Luer & R. Vásquez) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Phytologia 46: 374 Luer 1980;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986 drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol VI Systematics of Pleurothallis subgen Ancipita, Scopula and Trisetella Luer 1989 drawing fide;
Orchids of Bolivia Vasquez & Ibisch Vol 1 2000 drawing fide;
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