Pleurothallis biceps Luer & Hirtz 1996 SUBGENUS Acianthera [Scheidw.] Luer 1986
Photo by © Alexander Hirtz
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Two Headed Pleurothallis [refers to the two flowered inflorescence]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Morona-Santiago province of Ecuador at elevations around 950 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing, shortly repent or caespitose epiphyte with purple, erect, compressed and channeled towards the apex ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths towards the base and carrying a purple, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, acute, narrowly cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the summer on a short, arising within and concealed entirely by a spathe, in a fascile of successively 1 to 2, few flowered inflorescence with shorter than the ovary floral bracts.
"Distinguished from all others by the short, simultaneously 2 flowered inflorescence of fleshy flowers with the sepals deeply connate into a tube to near the middle with the thick fleshy free portions rounded and deep within the tube the lip is erose and bicrested." Luer 2004
Synonyms Acianthera biceps (Luer & Hirtz) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Lindleyana 11: 150-151 Luer & Hirtz 1996 drawing fide;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 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 Acianthera biceps;
Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Acianthera biceps photo fide
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