Pleurothallis culpameae (Luer) J.M.H.Shaw 2014 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Lindl 1859
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TYPE Drawing of Acronia culpameae by Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name or Meaning The My Mistake Pleurothallis [refers to the authors reuse of the name privigna]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Morona-Santiago province of Ecuador at elevations arond 900 meters as a miniature sized epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by a close, tubular bract above the base and another at the base carrying a single, spreading, coriaceous, cordate-ovate, acute, slightly acuminate, sessile, deeply cordate base leaf that blooms in the summer on a fascile of peduncles .08 to .12" [2 to 3 mm] long, totally concealed within a reclining spathe, successively single, few flowered inflorescence with tubular, shorter than the pedicel floral bracts and carrying the flower lying against the base of the leaf.
Part of the Pleurothallis cardiostola/Pleurothallis lilijae complex, but P culpameae differs in the smaller habit, a flat, ovate-codate leaf that is not decurved, a small reclining spathe and a smaller flower with large, ovate, acute petals and a small ovate lip that is concave centrally.
Synonyms *Acronia culpameae Luer 2005; Pleurothallis privigna Luer & Hirtz 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia culpameae;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 as Acronia culpameae drawing fide;
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