Pleurothallis hippocrepica Luer & R.Escobar 1984 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Antenniferae Luer 1998
Photo by © Andy Philipps and his Andy's Orchids Website
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Horse Shoe Shaped Pleurothallis [refers to the lip]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Antioquia department of Colombia and Loja province of Ecuador at elevations of 2500 to 2800 meters as a medium sized, cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with stout, erect ramciauls enveloped by a tubular sheath below the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, ovate, acute, shortly acuminate, sessile and round base leaf that blooms in the spring and summer on 1 to 3, arising through a spathe, erect, distichous, subdense, 8 to 10" [20 to 25 cm] long, simultaneously many flowered, racemose inflorescence with a tubular, longer than the pedicel floral bract.
"Similar to P pendulifera but differs in the ovate leaves that are not basally cordate, the triangular petals and a lip with long incurved lobes." Luer 1999
"The long-lobed lip of this species is similar to that of P taurus, but the habit of the two species is very different. The tall, stout secondary stems of P. hippocrepica bear a large, broadly ovate leaf and a long, erect raceme. The short stems of P. taurus are prolific and bear a small, narrowly ovate leaf and a drooping raceme." Luer 1984
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Orquideología 16: 165. Luer & R. Escobar 1984 Drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986; Drawing fide
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