SUBGENUS Ancipitia SECTION Ancipitia Luer 1986

Characterized by the sharply laterally compressed, ancipitous ramicauls except in one species that is 4 angled, the cordate and sessile leaves and the long pedicellate single flowers produced in a fasscile at the base of the leaf without an annulus. The sepals are more or less membraneous with the laterals connate. The petals are thickened towards the apex and the lips are diversely modified, often into bizarre shapes resembling insect and animal horns and ears. The morphology of the some parts of the flowers is quite variable among the species but the ramicauls, leaves, peduncles, sepals and petals are quite consistently the same.

TYPE species for the Section

!Pleurothallis anceps Luer 1979

  1. Pleurothallis acinaciformis Wilson & Larsen 2019 Colombia

  2. !Pleurothallis anceps Luer 1979 Colombia and Ecuador

  3. Pleurothallis andreae Mark Wilson, B.T.Larsen & J.Portilla 2017 Colombia and Ecuador

  4. Pleurothallis anthrax Luer & R. Escobar 1981 Colombia and Venezuela

  5. Pleurothallis arietina Ames 1923 Costa Rica and Panama

  6. Pleurothallis caniceps Luer 1982 Costa Rica

  7. Pleurothallis caprina Luer & R.Escobar 1981 Colombia

  8. Pleurothallis condorensis Luer & Hirtz 1989 Ecuador

  9. Pleurothallis crocodiliceps Rchb. f. 1855 Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela

  10. Pleurothallis cypelligera Luer & Hirtz 2002 Ecuador

  11. Pleurothallis dressleriana Bogarín 2014 Panama

  12. Pleurothallis driessenii Luer 2000 Ecuador

  13. Pleurothallis dunstervillei Foldats 1968 Ecuador, Colombia, Peru and Venezuela

  14. Pleurothallis duplex Luer & R.Escobar 1983 Colombia

  15. Pleurothallis eumecocaulon Schltr.1923 Costa Rica and Panama

  16. Pleurothallis furcifera Luer 1976Peru

  17. Pleurothallis gratiosa Rchb. f. 1854 Venezuela

  18. Pleurothallis gustavoi Mark Wilson Mark Wilson 2017 Colombia

  19. Pleurothallis harpago Luer 1979 Panama

  20. Pleurothallis indecora Rodr.-Mart. & Karremans 2017 Colombia

  21. Pleurothallis inornata Luer & Hirtz 1989 Ecuador

  22. Pleurothallis instar Luer 1977 Panama

  23. Pleurothallis kelsoae Mark Wilson, B.T.Larsen & J.Portilla 2017 Ecuador

  24. Pleurothallis londonoi Luer 1996 Colombia

  25. Pleurothallis lueriana Karremans & Rodr.-Mart. 2017 Colombia

  26. Pleurothallis manningiana Mark Wilson, Salas Guerr. & B.T.Larsen 2017 Ecuador

  27. Pleurothallis membracidoides Luer 1980 Colombia

  28. Pleurothallis nelsonii Ames 1923 Mexico and Guatemala

  29. Pleurothallis neodubbeldamii J.M.H.Shaw 2014 Peru

  30. Pleurothallis niveoglobula Luer 1975 Ecuador

  31. Pleurothallis odobeniceps Luer 1989 Colombia

  32. Pleurothallis onagriceps Luer & Hirtz 1989 Ecuador

  33. Pleurothallis praecipua Luer 1980 Ecuador

  34. Pleurothallis renieana (Luer & Sijm) J.M.H.Shaw 2014 Ecuador

  35. Pleurothallis solium Luer 1982 Ecuador

  36. Pleurothallis spathulipetala Luer 1996 Colombia

  37. Pleurothallis viduata Luer 1981 Ecuador

  38. Pleurothallis vorator Luer & R. Vásquez 1980 Ecuador and Bolivia

    SUBGENUS Ancipitia SECTION Tetragona Luer 1986

    Characterized by the 4 sided, compressed ramicaul

  39. Pleurothallis eduardoi Mark Wilson 2017 Colombia

  40. !Pleurothallis tetragona Luer & Escobar 1981 Colombia

  41. Pleurothallis wielii Mark Wilson, B.T.Larsen & J.Portilla 2017

SUBGENUS Ancipitia SECTION Ancipitia SUBSECTION Scopula in ed.

Characterized by the elliptical to narrowly elliptical leaves with a tuft of single flowered inflorescence emering from what looks like the midrib near the apex. The leaves are actually exceedingly long-decurrrent on the ramicaul. No annulus is visible and the flowers are similar to Subgenus Pleurothallis with a cylindrical column and an apical to subapical anther and stigma as well as an obsolescent foot.

TYPE species for the subsection.

    !Pleurothallis penicillata Luer 1980

  1. Pleurothallis aspergillum Luer & Hirtz 1989 Colombia and Ecuador

  2. Pleurothallis cosmetron Luer 1992 Colombia

  3. Pleurothallis ecomingae M.M.Jiménez, Baquero & Mark Wilson 2018 Ecuador

  4. Pleurothallis garayana (Ospina) Luer 1975 Colombia

  5. Pleurothallis juvenilis Rodr.-Mart. & Karremans 2017 Colombia

  6. Pleurothallis ottocarii Rodr.-Mart., Rinc.-Useche & Karremans 2015 Colombia

  7. !Pleurothallis penicillata Luer 1980 Colombia

  8. Pleurothallis ruscaria Luer 1980 Colombia and Ecuador

  9. Pleurothallis scoparum Rchb.f 1888 Colombia and Ecuador

  10. Pleurothallis silverstonei Luer 1992 Colombia

  11. Pleurothallis tetroxys Luer 1989 Colombia and Ecuador

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