Pleurothallis cymbisepala Schltr. 1924 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Antenniferae Luer 1998
Drawing by © Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Boat-Like Sepal Pleurothallis
Flower Size .12" [3 mm]
Found in Nariño and Putumayo departments of Colombia and Zamore-Chinchipe province of Ecuador on the eastern slopes of the Andes at elevations of 2600 to 3000 meters as a miniature to medium sized, cold growing, shortly repent to caespitose, epiphyte with slender, erect, ramicauls enveloped by a tubular sheath near the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical-ovate, acute, broadly cuneate to rounded into the sessile, base leaf that blooms in the winter, summer and fall on 1 to 3, erect, arising through a spathe, peduncle .8 to 1.2" [2 to 3 cm] long, 2.8 to 6" [7 to 15 cm] long overall, subdense, distichous, simultaneously many flowered inflorescence with oblique, acute, shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.
The Ecuadorian flowers of this species are twice as large as their Colombian counterparts otherwise they are the same.
"Similar to P antennifera but the synsepal is concave and the narrowly linear petals spread from the flower. The lip is broadly ovate and cordate at the base which is acutely deflexed." Luer 1999
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
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