Pleurothallis andreaskayi Mark Wilson & B.T. Larsen 2022 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl 1859
Comparison photo with P apopsis top
LCDP photo by © Henry Garzón Suárez/Comparison photos A & B; Kilian Zuchan; C & D; by Marco Jiménez and Harvard Papers in Botany Vol. 27, No. 2 New species of Pleurothallis (Orchidaceae: Pleurothallidinae), a new country record, AND labellar morphology in the P. cardiostola-P. lilijae complex of subsection Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Mark Wilson, Bruno Larsen, Juan Sebastián Moreno, Raven Ward, Joost A. G. Riksen,Luis Piña, Mario A. Sierra-Ariza, Marco M. Jiménez, Milton Rincón-Gonzalez, Robinson Galindo-Tarazona, Henry Garzón Suárez, and David Haelterman 2022
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Common Name Andreas Kay's Pleurothallis [Ecuadorian Orchid Photographer and Physisist 1961 - 2019]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Cundinamarca department of Colombia and Morona-Santiago province of Ecuador on the steep hillsides in premontane rainforest at elevations around 2336 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect to suberect ramicauls enclosed by a tubular, papery basal sheath, and a longer, tightly adpressed, tubular sheath below the middle, and carrying a single, apical horizontal to usually deflexed, coriaceous, cordate-ovate, slightly concave above the base, acuminate, acute, shortly retuse, sessile base leaf that blooms in the later winter on a descending, short, arising through a brown, papery, conduplicate, reclining spathe at the base of the leaf, peduncle .04 to .12" [1 to 3 mm] long, concealed within the spathe, shorter than the ovary, concealed within the spathe floral bract.
"Part of the Pleurothallis cardiostola/Pleurothallis lilijae complex.Pleurothallis andreaskayi is most similar to P. apopsis but can be easily distinguished by the color (cream-colored in P. andreaskayi versus yellow in P. apopsis); the number of veins in the dorsal sepal (7-veined in P. andreaskayi versus 3-veined in P. apopsis); and the lip morphology and size (lip base with rounded “shoulders,” significantly wider than column in P. andreaskayi versus lip base straight, slightly wider than column in P. apopsis)." Thoerle & Hirtz 2018
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
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