Pleurothallis cypelligera Luer & Hirtz 2002 SUBGENUS Ancipitia SECTION Ancipitia Luer 1986
Photos by Alfonso Doucette and his Flickr Website
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name or Meaning The Cup Bearing Pleurothallis
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Morona-Santiago province of Ecuador at elevations of 1500 to 2300 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing, caespitose caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect, compressed above the middle ramicauls with a tubular sheath below the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, erect to spreading, ovate, acute, sessile, rounded and subcordate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a slender, arising through a reclining spathe at the base of the leaf, suberect, .2 to .25" [5 to 7 mm] long, fascile of successively single flowered inflorescence with a thin, shorter than the pedicel floral bract.
"Distinguished by the concave, greenish white sepals, petals and lip all suffused with rose, the oblong petals and a concave suborbicular lip with minutely irregular lateral margins." Carl Luer 2002
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIV A First Century of New Species of Stelis of Ecuador Part 1 Luer 2002 Drawing 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 cypelligera
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