Pleurothallis cypripedioides Luer 1975 SUBGENUS Effusae Luer 2000
Photos by Egon Kogsgaard
Photo by Patricia Harding
Photos by Danny Lentz ©, plant grown by Atlanta Botanical Garden
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
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Common Name The Cypripedium-Like Pleurothallis [Refers to the pouch-like lip]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Napo, Morona-Santiago and Zamora-Chinchope provinces of Ecuador and Peru at elevations of 350 to 1000 meters as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coricaeous, elliptical, subacute, narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a weak, subtended by a spathe with an annulus at below the apex of the ramicaul, more or less pendent, lax, disitchous, flexuous, to 2" [5 cm] long, successively several to many flowered inflorescence with shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.
"Characterized by the caespitose habit with abbreviated ramicauls, an obovate, petiolate leaf and a weak more or less pendent, lax raceme of succcessive flowers. Filled within with long, bright purple hairs, the purplish synsepal is deeply concave, suggesting the pouch of a minute ladys slipper with the dorsal sepal above as a lid." Luer 2000
Synonyms Specklinia cypripedioides (Luer) Luer 2004; Stelis cypripedioides (Luer) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Selbyana 1(1): 70 Luer 1975 Drawing fide;
Miniature Orchids Northen 1980;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:262 Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001 2001 as Stelis cypripedioides;
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 Specklinia cypripedioides;
AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 11 2006 photo fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIX A Third Century of Stelis of Ecuador systematics of Apoda-Prorepentia Luer 2007 as Effusiella cypripedioides;
Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 photo not
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