Acostaea trilobata Luer 1975
Photos courtesy of Patricia Harding
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
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Common Name or Meaning The Three Lobed Acostaea
Found in southern Colombia and Ecuador on the eastern side of the Andes in tall cloud forests at elevations of 500 to 1850 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with ascending to erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical to narrowly obovate, subacute to obtuse leaf with the base cuneate or narrowly cuneate into a petiole and blooms in the summer and again in the late fall on an erect to suberect, loose, successively 3 to 9 flowered, racemose, to 2" [5 cm] long inflorescence with thin floral bracts. The major difference between this speceies and others is the 3 thick rounded lobes at the apex of the lip.
Synonyms Specklinia trilobata (Luer) Pridgeon & M.W. Chase 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Orquideologia Vol 13 No 3 1979;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol IV Systematics of Acostaea, Condylago and Porroglossum Luer 1987 drawing fide;
Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:259 Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001 as Specklinia trilobata;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Dodson 1993 drawing/photo ok;
Flora Of Ecuador # 76 225[2] Dodson & Luer 2005 drawing ok;
Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Specklnia trilobata photo fide
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