Eurystyles luisortizii Ackerman 2021
Photos by Jonathan López/TYPE Drawing by © by Bobbi Angell and Lankesteriana 21: 46 Ackerman 2021
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Common Name Luis Ortiz Jordan's Eurystyles [Puerto Rican Discoverer of the species current]
Flower Size .08" [2 mm]
Found in Puerto Rico at elevations around 780 to 800 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with up to 7, in a basal rosette, shiney greyish green, soft, ovate-elliptical, cuneate, acute with an apiculate tip, with five main arching veins, the mid vein pinnate, undulate, pectinate-ciliate margins, broad, canaliculate, into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the later fall and winter on a terminal, pendulous, peduncle terete, densely ciliate, 64 to .8" [1.6 to 2 cm] long, provided with 1 to 2, foliaceous, elliptical, acuminate, denticulate-ciliate sheathing bracts, rachis subcapitate, congested, more or less simultaneosuly opening, 10 to 20 flowered inflorescence with foliaceous, elliptical, acuminate, funnel-shaped, slightly longer than the flowers floral bracts and carrying inconspicuous, non-resupinate flowers
"Eurystyles luisortizii Ackerman is vegetatively similar to Eurystyles ananassocomus but differs florally by having a narrower lip (0.6–0.8 mm vs. 1.5–2.0 mm), a single-veined lip vs. 3-veined, lip lacking basal auricles vs. being auriculate, and the staminodes simple and erect vs. bifurcated and curved." Ackerman 2021
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Lankesteriana 21: 46 Ackerman 2021 drawing fide
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