Pleurothallis lueriana Karremans & Rodr.-Mart. 2017 SUBGENUS Ancipitia SECTION Ancipitia Luer 1986
Photos by Alfonso Doucette Copyright © 2009, and His Flicker website
TYPE Drawing by © Karremans & Rodr.-Mart.
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Common Name Luer's Pleurothallis [American Botanist and Pleurothallidinae expert died 2019]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Valle de Cauca department of Colombia on the eastern side of the Cordillera Occidental in cloud forests at elevations of 1400 to 1600 meters as a medium sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect, sharply ancipitous above the middle ramicauls enveloped by a tubular sheath above the base and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coricaeous, rigid, elliptical-ovate, acute, carinate externally, cuneate into the conduplicate and decurrent onto the ramicaul, sessile base leaf that blooms in the late spring through summer on ascending-horizontal, arising through a reclining spathe above the base of the leaf, in a fascile of slender, erect, .4" [1 cm] long, successively single, few flowered inflorescence with shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.
"Amongst the species of Pleurothallis subgen. Ancipitia, P. lueriana is immediately distinguished by the thick, dark purple, obtrapezoid lip, with erect lateral lobes, and the pair of apical, retrorse, arm-like lobes on the column. The lip and column of P. membracidoides Luer are somewhat similar, but the new species can be easily distinguished by the pubescent petals (vs. glabrous), the fully dark purple lip (vs. basally purple, and yellow-white above the middle) with a conspicuously warty apex along the lateral lobes (vs. inornate lateral lobes) and the conspicuous, pubescent, arm-like lobes near the apex of the column (vs. inconspicuously lobed, non-pubescent)." Rodr.-Mart. & Karremans 2017
Synonyms Ancipitia jimii (Luer) Luer 2004; Pleurothallis jimii Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
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 Pleurothallis jimii drawing fide;
* LANKESTERIANA 17(2): 255 Rodr.-Mart. & Karremans 2017 photo/drawing fide;
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