Pleurothallis dalstroemii Luer 1984 SUBGENUS Aenigma SECTION Aenigma Luer 1986
Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website
Photo by Egon Krogsgaard
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
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Common Name or Meaning Dalstroem's Pleurothallis [Swedish Botanist Current]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Loja and Zamora-Chinchipe provinces of Ecuador and Peru in cloud forests at elevations of 2600 to 3000 meters as a small sized, cold growing, densely caespitose epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 2, thin, loose, ribbed, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptic, subacute to obtuse, cuneate below in to the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring and summer on a loose, successively 2 to 3 flowered, .8" [20 mm] long, racemose inflorescence with an oblique, acute, shorter than the pedicel floral bract.
"Identified by the small, ascending habit; short, few flowered racemes; a long-pubescent ovary; rather simple sepals and petals; and a broadly cordate lip with a small cavity at the front end of the callus of the disc." Luer 1994
Synonyms Andinia dalstroemii (Luer) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001; Pleurothallis dalstroemii Luer 1994
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Orchideer 5: 52 Luer 1984 drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4 2001 as Andinia dalestromii;
Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide as Andinia dalestromii;
Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Andinia dalstroemi photo fide
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