Pleurothallis carmensotoana Mark Wilson & B.T. Larsen 2022 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl 1859
Representative species throughout the range
LCDP photo by © Mark Wilson/TYPE Drawing By Bruno Larsen/ Representative species A: Ron Parsons, B; Marco Jimenez, C: Abel Huayta Baltazar, D; Fabian Kulka 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 Carmen Soto's Pleurothallis [Peruvian Orchid Specialist At Inkaterra, Machu Picchu 1964 - 2021]
Flower Size .48" [1.2 cm]
Found in Loja province of Ecuador and Oxapampa and Huancayo departments of Peru at elevations around 2500 to 2600 meters as a small sized, cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect, slender, terete ramicauls enclosed by a tubular, papery basal sheath, and a tightly adpressed, tubular sheath below the middle and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, ovate, acute, deeply cordate, sessile base leaf that blooms in the late winter and early spring on a descending, rarely in pairs, arising through a reclining spathe, peduncle .08" [2 mm] long; in a fascicle of successively single flowered inflorescence with a shorter than the pedicel floral bract and carrying resupinate flowers.
"Part of the Pleurothallis cardiostola/Pleurothallis lilijae complex. Pleurothallis carmensotoana is most similar to P. lilijae but can be easily distinguished by the lip morphology, including: shape of the lip apex (oblong in P. carmensotoana versus triangular in P. lilijae); the edges of the mid lip (reflexed in P. carmensotoana versus erect in P. lilijae); and the interior of the lip apex (partially filled by two raised calli, separated by a distinct apical channel in P. carmensotoana versus concave without distinct calli or apical channel in P. lilijae)." Mark Wilson & B.T. Larsen 2022
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
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