Pleurothallis jamiesonii Lindl. 1835 SUBGENUS Crocodeilanthe [Rchb.f & Warsc.]Luer 1986
Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name Jamieson's Pleurothallis [English Original Collector of species 1800's]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru at elevations of 2800 to 3300 meters as a small to medium sized, cold growing, densely caespitose epiphyte with fasciculate, stout, erect ramicauls enveloped by a long tubular sheath near the middle and 2 to 3, imbricating, tubular sheaths at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, obtuse to subacute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on 1 to 4, arising through a spathe from an annulus just below the abscission layer, simultaneous, secund, 4.8 to 10" [12 to 25 cm] long including the 2.4 to 2.8" [6 to 7 cm] long peduncle, densely and simultaneously many flowered inflorescence with enclosing the pedicel and the ovry floral bracts.
"Characterized by the few, long, secund racemes of small flowers borne from a narrow erect spathe ar the base of the petiolate leaf. The finely pubescent sepals and the three veined, obtuse petals are similar to those seen in many allied species, but the lip possesses a convex, apical lobe and a pair of pyramidal calli on the disc contiguous with the lateral lobes below the middle. Similar modifications have developed in the lips of two closely related species P avirostris and P praealta." Luer 1998
Synonyms Crocodeilanthe jamiesonii (Lindl.) Luer 2004; Humboltia foveata (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Humboltia jamiesonii (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Pleurothallis foveata Lindl. 1859; Pleurothallis sodiroi Schltr. 1915; Stelis jamiesonii (Lindl.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001; Stelis sagittata Zambrano & Solano 2018
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Edwards's Bot. Reg. 21: t. 1797 Lindley 1835;
Fol. Orchid. 9: 31 Lindley 1859 as P foveata;
Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 667 Kuntze 1891 Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 667 Kuntze 1891 as Humboltia jamesonii;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 14: 132 Schlechter 1915 as P sodiroi;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986 as P sodiroi;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVI Systematics of Pleurothallis SUBGEN Crocodeilanthe, Rhynchopera and Talpinaria Luer 1998 drawing fide;
Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:264 Pridgeon & Chase 2001 as Stelis jamiesonii;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 drawing fide;
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 Crocodeilanthe jamiesonii;
Phytotaxa 376: 183 Zambrano & Solano 2018 as Stelis sagittata;
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