Pleurothallis echinocarpa C.Schweinf. 1942 SUBGENUS Kraenzlinella (Kuntze) Luer 1986
Plant and Flower Photos by © and his French Orchid Society Northern Section Website
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
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Common Name The Hedgehog-Like Fruit Pleurothallis
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Ecuador and Peru in dry montane woods at elevations of 1600 to 2150 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with stout, terete, erect ramicauls enveloped at the base by 2 to 3, thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, elliptica, subacute to obtuse, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later fall and winter on a stout, arising through a small spathe, 6.4" [16 cm] long, loose, disitchous, subflexuous, successively several flowered inflorescence with oblique, acute, compressed, short to as long as the ovary floral bracts and a densely echinate ovary.
"In habit it is similar to a small plant of P. erinacea or P. otopetlum: short, stout ramicauls bearing a thick, fleshy, sessile leaf. It is distinguished by an elongating inflorescence producing small to medium-sized flowers; large, markedly echinate ovaries; thickened sepals tall-carinate toward the apices; acute petals inconspicuously biauriculate at the base; and an unguiculate, channeled lip." Luer 1994
Synonyms Acianthera echinocarpa (C.Schweinf.) A.Doucette 2016; Kraenzlinella echinocarpa (C.Schweinf.) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Bot. Mus. Leafl. 10: 179 C Schweinfurth 1942;
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 Kraenzlinella echinocarpa;
Phytotaxa 275: 271 Doucette 2016 as Acianthera echinocarpa;
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