Pleurothallis instar Luer 1977 SUBGENUS Ancipitia SECTION Ancipitia Luer 1986
Photo by © Karremans and The Epidendra Orchid Website
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer and The Epidendra Orchid Website
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Common Name The Similar Pleurothallis [refer to it's similarity to P eumecocaulon]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Costa Rica and Chiriqui province of Panama in cloud forests at elevations around 1000 to 1100 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect, laterally compressed above the middle ramicauls with a tubular bract below the middle and 2 to 3 tubular sheaths at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly ovate, acute, cuneate to rounded to shallowly cordate into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the late summer through winter on a arising from the base of the leaf through a reclining spathe, fascile of .4 to .8" [1 to 2 cm] long, successive single, few flowered inflorescence with as long as the ovary floral bract..
"Pleurothallis instar resembles mostly closely P. eumecocaulon Schltr., but it can be recognized by the ovate leaves and wider sepals and petals. Also, P. eumecocaulon bears a papillose disc located below the middle of the lip, whereas the disc in P. instar is concave and located in the basal half." Bogarin & Karremans 2012
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Selbyana 3(3-4): 320-321, f. 260 Luer 1977 drawing fide;
Selbyana 3(3-4): 320-321, f. 260. Luer 1977
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;
Orchids Travel By Air A Pictoral Safari Mulder, Mulder-Roelfsema and Schuiteman 1990 photo fide;
LANKESTERIANA 12(1), Bogarín, Karremans & Mel.Fernández April 2012. © Universidad de Costa Rica, 2012 drawing/photo fide;
Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 photo fide
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