Pleurothallis coripatae Luer & R.Vásquez 1980 SUBGENUS Acuminatia SECTION Acuminatae Luer 1986

TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Coripata Pleurothallis [A town in Bolivia near where the species was found]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in La Paz department of Bolivia in cloud forests at elevations around 2000 meters as a mini-miniature to miniature sized, cool to cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by a tubular sheath near the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, gray green, elliptical, subacute to obtuse, narrowly cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on a subcongested, arising through a spathe with an annulus below the apex of the ramicaul, 4 to 5.6" [10 to 14 cm] long, distichous, flexuous, simultaneously several flowered inflorescence with a longer than the pedicel floral bract.

Similar to P rubens and P unduavica as the lips of all three are similar. It is distinguished from P rubens by the column that lacks the protruding margin beyond the anther and from P unduavica it is distinguished by the entire petals and only one central lamella of the lip.

Synonyms Anathallis coripatae (Luer & R.Vásquez) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001; Specklinia coripatae (Luer & R.Vásquez) Luer 2004; Stelis coripatae (Luer & R.Vásquez) Karremans 2014

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Phytologia 46: 362 Luer 1980;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVIII Systematics of Pleurothallis subsection Antenniferae, Longiracemosae, Macrophyllae-racemosae and Subgenera Pseudsostelis and Acuminata Luer 1999

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVIII Systematics of Pleurothallis subsection Antenniferae, Longiracemosae, Macrophyllae-racemosae and Subgenera Pseudsostelis and Acuminata Luer 1999 drawing fide;

Orchids of Bolivia Vol 1 Pleurothallidinae Vasquez & Ibisch 2000 drawing fide;

Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:248 Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001 as Anathallis coripatae

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 2004as Specklinia coripatae;

LANKESTERIANA 13(3): 319—332 Kerremans 2014 as Stelis coripatae

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