Pleurothallis jesupiorum Luer & Hirtz 1996 SUBGENUS Acuminatia SECTION Acuminatae Luer 1986
TYPE Photo by © Alexander Hirtz
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Jesup's Pleurothallis [American Orchid Enthusiasts and collectors of species current]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Zamora-Chinchipe province of Ecuador at elevations around 2500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, blackish, erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3, tubular sheaths below the middle and at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on a loose, arising through a narrow spathe from an annulus just below the apex of the ramicaul, distichous, 1.2 to 2.4" [3 to 6 cm] long including the .4 to .8" [1 to 2 cm] long peduncle, simultaneously several flowered inflorescence with a shorter than the ovary floral bract.
"Similar to P mediocarinata but is easily distinguished by the small habit, the small bright orange sepals that are papillose-pubescent within. The petals are obtuse and carinate. The lip is acuate and oblong but widest at the rounded apex. On the disc above the middle only 2 carinae meet above the apical margin in a low, verrucose, callous junction." Luer 1999
Synonyms Anathallis jesupiorum (Luer & Hirtz) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001; Specklinia jesupiorum (Luer & Hirtz) Luer 2004; Stelis jesupiorum (Luer & Hirtz) Karremans 2014
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Lindleyana 11: 164 Luer & Hirtz1996 drawing fide;
Lindleyana 16(4): 258. (Ames) Pridgeon & M.W. Chase 2001 as Anathallis jesupiorum;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 photo 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 Specklinia jesupiorum;
Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide as Anathallis jesupiorum;
LANKESTERIANA 13(3): 319—332 Kerremans 2014 as Stelis jesupiorum
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