Pleurothallis condorensis Luer & Hirtz 1989 SUBGENUS Ancipitia SECTION Ancipitia Luer 1986
Photo courtesy of Dick McRill
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name or Meaning The Condor-Like Pleurothallis [refers to it's occuring in the Cordillera del Condor in Ecuador]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Morona Santiago province of Ecuador and Peru in cloud forests at elevations around 1450 meters as a small sized, cool growing, shortly repent to loosely caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect to suberect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 sheaths and with a bract below the middle and carrying a single, rigid, coriaceous, ovate, acute leaf with the base narrowly cordate to obtuse that blooms in the summer on a horizontal, arising through a reclining spathe, in a fascile of 2" [5 cm] long, sucessively single, few flowered inflorescence with much shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.
"The lip is three lobed with the middle lobe broadly truncate and the lateral lobes oblong and erect. Its closest relative is Pleurothallis solium Luer 1982 but it differs in the rounded sepals, spathulate petals and short, triangular, lateral lobes of the lip." Luer 1989
Synonyms Ancipitia condorensis (Luer & Hirtz) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol VI Systematics of Pleurothallis subgen Ancipita, Scopula and Trisetella Luer 1989 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 Ancipitia condorensis;
Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 photo fide
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