Pleurothallis anfracta Luer 1994 SUBGENUS Kraenzlinella (Kuntze) Luer 1986

Photo by © Jay Pfahl

TYPE Drawing

TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer

Common Name The Bent Pleurothallis [refers to the flexuous rachis]

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Tolima and Cundinamarca departments of Colombia at elevations around 1500 to 1850 meters as a small sized, cool growing, shortly repent terrestrial with stout erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, elliptical, acute to subacute, gradually narrowing below into the subpetiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on a very flexuous, arising from the apex of the ramicaul through a spathe, slender, disitichous, 10" [25 cm] long, loose, successively several flowered, racemose inflorescence oblique, acute, conduplicate, short to just short of the ovary floral bracts.

"The species is easily recognized by the stout ramicauls shorter than the fleshy leaves, and a tall peduncle bearing an elongate, markedly zig-zag raceme. Lehmann described the color of the flowers as “dark black-brown.” The sepals are fleshy and narrowly acute, The narrowly acute petals are barely auriculate at the base. The demarcation between the spathulate blade and the non-decurved claw of the lip is obscure, but marked by; a minute pair of uncinate lobules. The claw is biauriculate at the base." Luer 1994

Similar species include P funerea and P angulosa." Luer 1994

Synonyms Kraenzlinella anfracta (Luer) Luer 2004

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XI Systematics of Lepanthes Subgenus Brachycladium and Pleurothallis Subgenus Aenigma, Subgenus Elongata and Subgenus Kranzlinella Luer 1994;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XI Systematics of Lepanthes Subgenus Brachycladium and Pleurothallis Subgenus Aenigma, Subgenus Elongata and Subgenus Kranzlinella Luer 1994 Drawing fide;

Orquideologia Vol 20 #3 1997;

Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998 photo fide;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Pleurothallis subgenus Acianthera and Three Allied subgenera, A Second Century of new Species of Stelis of Ecuador, Epibator, Ophidion and Zootrophion Luer 2004 as Kraenzlinella anfracta;

Orchid Digest Vol 71 No 3 2007 photo fide;

Harvard Pap. Bot. 21: 186 Karremans 2016 as Anathallis anfracta

Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Anathallis anfracta photo fide

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