Pleurothallis harpago Luer 1979 SUBGENUS Ancipitia SECTION Ancipitia Luer 1986
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Grappling Hook Pleurothallis [refers to the uncinate lip]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Darien province of eastern Panama at elevations around 1200 meters as a mini-miniature to small sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect, slender, 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, narrowly ovate, acute, rounded and shallowly cordate with the basal lobes inflexed below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the spring on erect, arising through a reclining spathe at the base of the leaf, in a fascile of .43 to .88" [1.7 to 2.2 cm] long, successively single, few flowered inflorescence with shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.
Closely related to P eumecocaulon but P harpago has smaller flowers and with ciliated petals and a ciliate lip with a prominent, incurved, hook-like lip.
Synonyms Ancipitia harpago (Luer) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Selbyana 5(2): 167. Luer 1979;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol VI Systematics of Pleurothallis subgen Ancipita, Scopula and Trisetella Luer 1989 drawing fide;
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