Pleurothallis apopsis Luer 1979 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl 1859
Photo by © S Manning and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name The Lofty Pleurothallis [refers to the plants location high in the mountains]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Imbabura and Napo provinces of Ecuador at elevations of 3200 to 3700 meters as a medium sized, cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by a long tubular sheath below the middle and 2 to 3 shorter ones at the base and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, deflexed, cordate-ovate, acute, more or less concave below into the deeply cordate, sessile base leaf that blooms in the summer and fall on a reclining to suberect, arising through a conduplicate spathe, a fascile of short, successively single flowered inflorescence with thin, as long as to less than half the pedicel floral bracts.
Part of the Pleurothallis cardiostola/Pleurothallis lilijae complex. Distinguished by the relatively large, yellow flower with the dorsal sepals nearly glabrou and only three veined, relatively narrow, widely expanded petals and a more or less flat, triangular lip that is only slightly channeled medially." Luer 2005
Synonyms Acronia apopsis (Luer) Luer 2005; Zosterophyllanthos apopsis (Luer) Szlach. & Marg. 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Selbyana 5(2): 160 Luer 1979
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005as Acronia apopsis;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005as Acronia apopsis drawing fide other than the erect petals;
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