Pleurothallis amphigya Luer & R.Escobar 1981 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Acroniae SERIES Amphygiae Luer 1998Type for the section
Photos by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website
Photo? Photo by Kevin Holcomb
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name or Meaning The Pointed at Both Ends Pleurothallis
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Cundinamarca?, Cauca, Choco and Valle de Cauca departemtns of Colombia at elevations around 2400 to 2500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls with a thin tubular sheath below the middle and 2 others above the base and carrying a single, coriaceous, erect, ovate to narrowly ovate, acute, cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the summer on an arching, short, arising through a spathe at the base of the leaf, a fascile of, .4 to .7" [1 to 1.7 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with as long as the pedicel floral bract.
The leaves vary from narrowly elliptical to ovate, the long-attenuated dorsal sepal and synsepal spread in opposite directions and the subsigmoid, ciliate petals descend. The lip is small and acutely triangular." Luer 1998
CAUTION The narrow, entire petals on the photographed species above by Ecuagenera does not match the drawings by Luer but the column and lip does. All photos on the net have the leaves as wider and the petals as elongate, thin and twisting, Luers original drawing shows them as much wider and shorter. Kevin Holcomb's photo above is close especially in coloration and in the veining of the dorsal sepal, but again the petals are too long and the lip is more elongate and acute. Luers drawing is absolutely correct.
Synonyms Acronia amphigya (Luer & R.Escobar) Luer 2005
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Orquideologia Vol 14 #2 Luer & Escobar 1981 drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVII Systematics of Pleurothallis Section Abortivae, Truncatae, Subsection Acroniae, Subgenera Dracontia and Uncifera Luer 1998 drawing good except for leaf and the petals!;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Dryadella Acronia section Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia amphigya
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