Pleurothallis killipii Garay 1956 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Macrophyllae-Fasciclatae Lindl. 1859
Side View of Flower in situ Cundianamarca 6/20
Plant and Flower showing prolific habit in situ Cundianamarca 6/20
Plant and Flower in situ Cundianamarca 6/20
Photos by Jay Pfahl
Plant and Flower in situ Parque Nacional de Chingaza Colombia Photo by Camillo Orjuela.
Another similar species, note narrower leaf, hairless descending petals and hairless lip
Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name Killip's Pleurothallis [American first collector of species current]
Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm] wide and 3" [7.5 cm] long
Found in Cundinamarca, Boyaca and Santander departments of Colombia in cold cloud forests at elevations of 2200 to 3200 meters as a small to just medium sized, cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect, ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 close, tubular sheaths and another below the middle and carrying a single, apical, spreading, coriaceous, ovate, acute, acuminate, basally cordate and sessile leaf that blooms in the spring on a fascile, arising through a fugacious spathe, of successive single flowered infloresence with a shorter than the pedicel floral bract.
Recognized by the spreading, often prolific, ovate leaf with a resupinate flower held erect over the suface of the leaf by the pedicel arising from a reclining spathe and has very long, narrow, fimbriate petals and a narrowly ovate lip that is coarsely echinate.
Synonyms Acronia killipii [Garay] Luer 2005; Zosterophyllanthos killipii (Garay) Szlach. & Marg. 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Canad. J. Bot. 34: 254 Garay 1956;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998 photo fide mine has relaxed petals;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 drawing as Acronia killipi
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Systematics of Dryadella Systematics of Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 drawing as Acronia killipi drawing fide
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