Acostaea campylotyle P.Ortiz 1979
TYPE Photos by © Padre Pedro Ortiz
Photos by © Eric Hunt
Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia
Common Name The Bent Callus Acostaea
Flower Size .1" [2.5 mm]
Found in Colombia and Ecuador at elevations around 1500 to 1800 meters as a densely caespitose, mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with ascending to erect ramicauls enveloped by 1 to 2 sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical to narrowly elliptical to narrowly obovate, subacute to obtuse, cuneat to narrowly cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on an erect to suberect, slender, 1.2" [3 cm] long, loose, racemose, successively few [3 to 8] flowered inflorescence with thin floral bracts
Synonyms Specklinia campylotyle (P.Ortiz) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Orquideologia Vol 13 No 3 1979 drawing/photo fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol IV Systematics of Acostaea, Condylago and Porroglossum Luer 1987 drawing fide;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 1993 Dodson drawing fide;
Flora Of Ecuador # 76 225[2] Dodson & Luer 2005;
Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Specklinia campylotyle photo fide;
Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 photo/drawing fide
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